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Job 40:2

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Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.

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I will say to God: Do not be willing to condemn me. Reveal to me why you judge me this way.

Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,

I would place judgment before his eye, and my mouth would fill with criticism,

As God lives, who has taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who has led my soul to bitterness,

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,

to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has surrounded with darkness?

You have changed me into hardness, and, with the hardness of your hand, you oppose me.

then, would he grant me a hearing, so that the Almighty would listen to my desire, and he who judges would himself write a book,

Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?

Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.

But the Lord, answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:

Will you make my judgment null and void; and will you condemn me so that you may be justified?

Am I an ocean or a whale, that you have encircled me in a prison?

If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.

Whoever shall be in the future, his name has already been called. And it is known that he is a man and that he is not able to contend in judgment against one who is stronger than himself.

With whom has he consulted? And who has instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and guided him to knowledge, and revealed the way of understanding to him?

He who justifies me is near. Who will speak against me? Let us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him approach me.

I have ensnared you, and you have been captured, O Babylon, and you did not realize it. You have been discovered and seized, because you provoked the Lord.

"Why is it that you circulate among yourselves this parable, as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: 'The fathers ate a bitter grape, and the teeth of the sons have been affected.'

And upon receiving it, they murmured against the father of the family,

Or should we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he is? All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, so that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.




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