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God’s Challenge to Job

6 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:
⁷ ‘Gird up your loins like a man;
   I will question you, and you declare to me.
⁸ Will you even put me in the wrong?
   Will you condemn me that you may be justified?
⁹ Have you an arm like God,
   and can you thunder with a voice like his?

¹⁰ ‘Deck yourself with majesty and dignity;
   clothe yourself with glory and splendour.
¹¹ Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
   and look on all who are proud, and abase them.
¹² Look on all who are proud, and bring them low;
   tread down the wicked where they stand.
¹³ Hide them all in the dust together;
   bind their faces in the world below.^*
14 Then I will also acknowledge to you
   that your own right hand can give you victory.

Job Is Humbled and Satisfied

42Then Job answered the Lord:
² ‘I know that you can do all things,
   and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
³ “Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?”
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
   things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
⁴ “Hear, and I will speak;
   I will question you, and you declare to me.”
⁵ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
   but now my eye sees you;
⁶ therefore I despise myself,
   and repent in dust and ashes.’