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1 Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said,
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2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
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3 Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
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4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
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5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
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6 Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
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7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
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8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
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9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
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10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
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11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
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12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
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13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
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14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
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15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
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16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
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17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
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18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
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19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
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20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
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21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
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22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
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23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
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24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
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Cane

A tall sedgy plant with a hollow stem, growing in moist places. In Isa. 43:24; Jer. 6:20, the Hebrew word kaneh is thus rendered, giving its name to the plant. It is rendered "reed" in 1 Kings 14:15; Job 40:21; Isa. 19:6; 35:7. In Ps. 68:30 the expression "company of spearmen" is in the margin and the Revised Version "beasts of the reeds," referring probably to the crocodile or the hippopotamus as a symbol of Egypt. In 2 Kings 18:21; Isa. 36:6; Ezek. 29:6, 7, the reference is to the weak, fragile nature of the reed. (See [96]CALAMUS.)

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Cedar

(Heb. e'rez, Gr. kedros, Lat. cedrus), a tree very frequently mentioned in Scripture. It was stately (Ezek. 31:3-5), long-branched (Ps. 80:10; 92:12; Ezek. 31:6-9), odoriferous (Cant. 4:11; Hos. 14:6), durable, and therefore much used for boards, pillars, and ceilings (1 Kings 6:9, 10; 7:2; Jer. 22:14), for masts (Ezek. 27:5), and for carved images (Isa. 44:14). It grew very abundantly in Palestine, and particularly on Lebanon, of which it was "the glory" (Isa. 35:2; 60:13). Hiram supplied Solomon with cedar trees from Lebanon for various purposes connected with the construction of the temple and the king's palace (2 Sam. 5:11; 7:2, 7; 1 Kings 5:6, 8, 10; 6:9, 10, 15, 16, 18, 20; 7:2, 3, 7, 11, 12; 9:11, etc.). Cedars were used also in the building of the second temple under Zerubbabel (Ezra 3:7). Of the ancient cedars of Lebanon there remain now only some seven or eight. They are not standing together. But beside them there are found between three hundred and four hundred of younger growth. They stand in an amphitheatre fronting the west, about 6,400 feet above the level of the sea. The cedar is often figuratively alluded to in the sacred Scriptures. "The mighty conquerors of olden days, the despots of Assyria and the Pharaohs of Egypt, the proud and idolatrous monarchs of Judah, the Hebrew commonwealth itself, the war-like Ammonites of patriarchal times, and the moral majesty of the Messianic age, are all compared to the towering cedar, in its royal loftiness and supremacy (Isa. 2:13; Ezek. 17:3, 22, 23, 31:3-9; Amos 2:9; Zech. 11:1, 2; Job 40:17; Ps. 29:5; 80:10; 92:12, etc).", Groser's Scrip. Nat. Hist. (See [105]BOX-TREE.)

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