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Job 41
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1Have you not seen him? and have you not wondered at the things said [of him]? Do you not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?
1None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
2Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine?
2Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
3I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power [one] shall pity his antagonist.
3“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
4Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?
4Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?
5Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth .
5Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
6His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone.
6Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
7One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air can’t come between them.
7One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
8They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined , and can’t be separated.
8They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.
9At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are [as] the appearance of the morning star.
9His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
10Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
10Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.
11Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
11Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
12His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
12His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.
13And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
13There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
14The flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved.
14The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.
15His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
15His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
16And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.
16When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
17If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate.
17If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
18For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.
18He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
19The bow of brass shall not wound him, he deems a slinger as grass.
19The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
20Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
20Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
21His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay.
21His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
22He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
22He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
23and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range.
23He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
24There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.
24On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
25He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.
25He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”