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Job 40:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Gird up thy loins like a man. I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

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

With whom hath he consulted: and who hath instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?

Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?

And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,

He is near that justifieth me. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the children are set on edge?

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.

To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.

He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.

Thou art changed to be cruel toward me: and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?

I will say to God: Do not condemn me. Tell me why thou judgest me so.

But yet I will speak to the Almighty: and I desire to reason with God.

I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints:

Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

And the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind said:

Wilt thou make void my judgment? And condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

I have caused thee to fall into a snare and thou art taken, O Babylon: and thou wast not aware of it. Thou art found and caught, because thou hast provoked the Lord.

Gird up thy loins like a man. I will ask thee, and answer thou me.




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