Job 40

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¹Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, ✦ ²Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it. ✦ ³Then Job answered the LORD, and said, ⁴Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. ✦ ⁵Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further. ✦ ⁶Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, ✦ ⁷Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. ✦ ⁸Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? ✦ ⁹Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? ✦ ¹⁰Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. ✦ ¹¹Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him. ✦ ¹²Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. ✦ ¹³Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. ✦ ¹⁴Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee. ✦ ¹⁵Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. ✦ ¹⁶Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. ¹⁷He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. ✦ ¹⁸His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. ✦ ¹⁹He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. ✦ ²⁰Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. ✦ ²¹He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. ✦ ²²The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. ✦ ²³Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. ✦ ²⁴He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Job 9 ·7 Ps 104 ·5 Job 38 ·3 Job 40 ·3 Job 3 ·3 Job 23 ·3 Job 27 ·3 Job 7 ·3

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 40 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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