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[1] And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, saying,
[2] Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
[3] Do not set aside my judgment: and dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous?
[4] Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?
[5] Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.
[6] And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.
[7] Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.
[8] And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.
[9] Then will I confess that thy right hand can save thee.
[10] But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.
[11] Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
[12] He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.
[13] His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is as cast iron.
[14] This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.
[15] And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.
[16] He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.
[17] And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes of the field.
[18] If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.
[19] Yet one shall take him in his sight; one shall catch him with a cord, and pierce his nose.
[20] But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
[21] Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?
[22] Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
[23] And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?
[24] And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
[25] And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?
[26] And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither shall they carry his head in fishing-vessels.
[27] But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him once, remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more.
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