Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 Job, you challenged Almighty God; will you give up now, or will you answer?
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And the LORD said to Job:
3 I spoke foolishly, Lord. What can I answer? I will not try to say anything else.
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Then Job answered the LORD:
5 I have already said more than I should.
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I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further."
6 Then out of the storm the Lord spoke to Job once again.
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Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:
7 Now stand up straight and answer my questions.
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"Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare to me.
8 Are you trying to prove that I am unjust - to put me in the wrong and yourself in the right?
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Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?
9 Are you as strong as I am? Can your voice thunder as loud as mine?
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Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
10 If so, stand up in your honor and pride; clothe yourself with majesty and glory.
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"Deck yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor.
11 Look at those who are proud; pour out your anger and humble them.
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Pour forth the overflowings of your anger, and look on every one that is proud, and abase him.
12 Yes, look at them and bring them down; crush the wicked where they stand.
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Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked where they stand.
13 Bury them all in the ground; bind them in the world of the dead.
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Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.
14 Then I will be the first to praise you and admit that you won the victory yourself.
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Then will I also acknowledge to you, that your own right hand can give you victory.
15 Look at the monster Behemoth; I created him and I created you. He eats grass like a cow,
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"Behold, Be'hemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.
16 but what strength there is in his body, and what power there is in his muscles!
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Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.
17 His tail stands up like a cedar, and the muscles in his legs are strong.
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He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
18 His bones are as strong as bronze, and his legs are like iron bars.
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His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.
19 The most amazing of all my creatures! Only his Creator can defeat him.
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"He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!
20 Grass to feed him grows on the hills where wild beasts play.
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For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.
21 He lies down under the thorn bushes, and hides among the reeds in the swamp.
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Under the lotus plants he lies, in the covert of the reeds and in the marsh.
22 The thorn bushes and the willows by the stream give him shelter in their shade.
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For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.
23 He is not afraid of a rushing river; he is calm when the Jordan dashes in his face.
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Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.
24 Who can blind his eyes and capture him? Or who can catch his snout in a trap?
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Can one take him with hooks, or pierce his nose with a snare?
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.