| New Living Translation | NET Bible |
| 1Then the LORD said to Job, | 1Then the LORD answered Job: |
| 2“Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? You are God’s critic, but do you have the answers?” Job Responds to the LORD | 2"Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!" |
| 3Then Job replied to the LORD, | 3Then Job answered the LORD: |
| 4“I am nothing—how could I ever find the answers? I will cover my mouth with my hand. | 4"Indeed, I am completely unworthy--how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself. |
| 5I have said too much already. I have nothing more to say.” The LORD Challenges Job Again | 5I have spoken once, but I cannot answer; twice, but I will say no more." |
| 6Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind: | 6Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind: |
| 7“Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them. | 7"Get ready for a difficult task like a man. I will question you and you will inform me! |
| 8“Will you discredit my justice and condemn me just to prove you are right? | 8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right? |
| 9Are you as strong as God? Can you thunder with a voice like his? | 9Do you have an arm as powerful as God's, and can you thunder with a voice like his? |
| 10All right, put on your glory and splendor, your honor and majesty. | 10Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency, and clothe yourself with glory and honor! |
| 11Give vent to your anger. Let it overflow against the proud. | 11Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low; |
| 12Humiliate the proud with a glance; walk on the wicked where they stand. | 12Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot! |
| 13Bury them in the dust. Imprison them in the world of the dead. | 13Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave. |
| 14Then even I would praise you, for your own strength would save you. | 14Then I myself will acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you. |
| 15“Take a look at Behemoth, which I made, just as I made you. It eats grass like an ox. | 15"Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox. |
| 16See its powerful loins and the muscles of its belly. | 16Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly. |
| 17Its tail is as strong as a cedar. The sinews of its thighs are knit tightly together. | 17It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound. |
| 18Its bones are tubes of bronze. Its limbs are bars of iron. | 18Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron. |
| 19It is a prime example of God’s handiwork, and only its Creator can threaten it. | 19It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword. |
| 20The mountains offer it their best food, where all the wild animals play. | 20For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play. |
| 21It lies under the lotus plants, hidden by the reeds in the marsh. | 21Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh. |
| 22The lotus plants give it shade among the willows beside the stream. | 22The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it. |
| 23It is not disturbed by the raging river, not concerned when the swelling Jordan rushes around it. | 23If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth. |
| 24No one can catch it off guard or put a ring in its nose and lead it away. | 24Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare? |
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