1 Respondeu mais o SENHOR a Jó, dizendo:

2 Porventura o contender contra o Todo-Poderoso é sabedoria? Quem argüi assim a Deus, responda por isso.

3 Então Jó respondeu ao Senhor, dizendo:

4 Eis que sou vil; que te responderia eu? A minha mão ponho à boca.

5 Uma vez tenho falado, e não replicarei; ou ainda duas vezes, porém não prosseguirei.

6 Então o Senhor respondeu a Jó de um redemoinho, dizendo:

7 Cinge agora os teus lombos como homem; eu te perguntarei, e tu me explicarás.

8 Porventura também tornarás tu vão o meu juízo, ou tu me condenarás, para te justificares?

9 Ou tens braço como Deus, ou podes trovejar com voz como ele o faz?

10 Orna-te, pois, de excelência e alteza; e veste-te de majestade e de glória.

11 Derrama os furores da tua ira, e atenta para todo o soberbo, e abate-o.

12 Olha para todo o soberbo, e humilha-o, e atropela os ímpios no seu lugar.

13 Esconde-os juntamente no pó; ata-lhes os rostos em oculto.

14 Então também eu a ti confessarei que a tua mão direita te poderá salvar.

15 Contemplas agora o beemote, que eu fiz contigo, que come a erva como o boi.

16 Eis que a sua força está nos seus lombos, e o seu poder nos músculos do seu ventre.

17 Quando quer, move a sua cauda como cedro; os nervos das suas coxas estão entretecidos.

18 Os seus ossos são como tubos de bronze; a sua ossada é como barras de ferro.

19 Ele é obra-prima dos caminhos de Deus; o que o fez o proveu da sua espada.

20 Em verdade os montes lhe produzem pastos, onde todos os animais do campo folgam.

21 Deita-se debaixo das árvores sombrias, no esconderijo das canas e da lama.

22 As árvores sombrias o cobrem, com sua sombra; os salgueiros do ribeiro o cercam.

23 Eis que um rio transborda, e ele não se apressa, confiando ainda que o Jordão se levante até à sua boca.

24 Podê-lo-iam porventura caçar à vista de seus olhos, ou com laços lhe furar o nariz?

1 \40:6\Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

2 \40:7\Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

3 \40:8\Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

4 \40:9\Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

5 \40:10\Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:

6 \40:11\Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low.

7 \40:12\Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

8 \40:13\Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

9 \40:14\Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

10 \40:15\See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

11 \40:16\His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach.

12 \40:17\His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together.

13 \40:18\His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

14 \40:19\He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.

15 \40:20\He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.

16 \40:21\He takes his rest under the trees of the river, and in the pool, under the shade of the water-plants.

17 \40:22\He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.

18 \40:23\Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.

19 \40:24\Will anyone take him when he is on the watch, or put metal teeth through his nose?

20 \41:1\Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

21 \41:2\Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?

22 \41:3\Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

23 \41:4\Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

24 \41:5\Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

25 \41:6\Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

26 \41:7\Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?

27 \41:8\Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

28 \41:9\Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!