✧Moreover the LORD answered Job, ✧2“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.” ✧3Then Job answered the LORD, ✧4“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. ✧5I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.” ✧6Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: ✧7“Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me. ✧8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? ✧9Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him? ✧10“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty. ✧11Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. ✧12Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place. ✧13Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place. ✧14Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you. ✧15“See now behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox. ✧16Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly. ✧17He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together. ✧18His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron. ✧19He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword. ✧20Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play. ✧21He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh. ✧22The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him. ✧23Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth. ✧24Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?