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Job 40 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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I will lay my hand upon my mouth.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(39:35)</font> I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.<p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">The LORD Challenges Job Again<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:1)</font> And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, <i>saying</i>,<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:2)</font> Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:3)</font> 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?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:4)</font> Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:5)</font> Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:6)</font> And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:7)</font> Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:8)</font> And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:9)</font> <i>Then</i> will I confess that thy right hand can save <i>thee</i>.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:10)</font> But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:11)</font> Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:12)</font> He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:13)</font> His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is <i>as</i> cast iron.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:14)</font> This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:15)</font> And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:16)</font> He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:17)</font> And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and <i>so do</i> the bushes of the field.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:18)</font> If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/40-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><font color=blue>(40:19)</font> <i>Yet one</i> shall take him in his sight; <i>one</i> shall catch <i>him</i> with a cord, and pierce his nose.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/39.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 39"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 39" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/41.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 41"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 41" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>