1And the Lord added to, and spake to Job, and said,

2Whether he, that striveth with God, shall have rest so lightly? Soothly he, that reproveth God, oweth for to answer to him.

3And Job answered to the Lord, and said,

4What may I answer, which have spoken lightly, that is, undiscreetly and follily? I shall put mine hand upon my mouth.

5I spake one thing, which thing I would, that I had not said; and I spake another thing, to which I shall no more add.

6Forsooth the Lord answered to Job from the whirlwind, and said,

7Gird thou as a man thy loins, and I shall ask thee, and show thou to me.

8Whether thou shalt make void my doom, and shalt thou condemn me, that thou be made just [or be justified]?

9And if thou hast an arm, or power, as God hath, and if thou thunderest with like voice,

10take thou fairness about thee, and be thou raised on high, and be thou glorious, and be thou clothed in fair clothes.

11And destroy thou proud men in thy fierce vengeance, and behold thou, and make low each boaster.

12Behold thou all proud men, and shame thou them; and all-break thou wicked men in their place.

13Hide thou them in dust together, and drown down their faces into a ditch.

14And then I shall acknowledge, that thy right hand may save thee.

15Lo! behemoth, whom I made with thee, shall as an ox eat hay.

16His strength is in his loins, and his might is in the navel of his womb.

17He constraineth his tail as a cedar; the sinews of his stones of engendering be folded together.

18His bones be as pipes of brass; the gristle of him is as plates of iron.

19He is the beginning of the ways of God; he, that made him, shall set his sword to him.

20Hills bear herbs to this behemoth; all the beasts of the field play there.

21He sleepeth under shadow, in the private of a reed, in moist places.

22Shadows cover his shadow; the sallows of the river encompass him.

23He shall swallow up the flood, and he shall not wonder; he hath trust, that Jordan shall flow into his mouth.

24He shall take them by his eyes, as by an hook; and by sharp shafts he shall pierce his nostrils.