AB - Job - 41

41:1  (40:20) But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?

41:2  (40:21) Or will you fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?

41:3  (40:22) Will he address you with a petition? Softly, with the voice of a suppliant?

41:4  (40:23) And will he make a covenant with you? And will you take him for a perpetual servant?

41:5  (40:24) And will you play with him as with a bird? Or bind him as a sparrow for a child?

41:6  (40:25) And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?

41:7  (40:26) And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail, neither shall they carry his head in fishing vessels.

41:8  (40:27) But you shall lay your hand upon him once, remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done anymore.

41:9  (41:0) Have you not seen him? And have you not wondered at the things said of him?

41:10  (41:1) Do you not fear because preparation has been made by Me? For who is there that resists Me?

41:11  (41:2) Or who will resist Me, and stand their ground, since the whole world under heaven is Mine?

41:12  (41:3) I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist.

41:13  (41:4) Who will open the face of his garment? And who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?

41:14  (41:5) Who will open the doors of his face? Terror is round about his teeth.

41:15  (41:6) His inwards are as bronze plates, and the texture of his skin as a smyrite stone.

41:16  (41:7) One part cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them.

41:17  (41:8) They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated.

41:18  (41:9) At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star.

41:19  (41:10) Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.

41:20  (41:11) Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.

41:21  (41:12) His breath is as live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

41:22  (41:13) And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.

41:23  (41:14) The flesh also of his body is joined together: if one pours violence upon him, he shall not be moved.

41:24  (41:15) His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.

41:25  (41:16) And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.

41:26  (41:17) If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, neither with the spear or the breast plate.

41:27  (41:18) For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.

41:28  (41:19) The bow of brass shall not wound him, he deems a slinger as grass.

41:29  (41:20) Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.

41:30  (41:21) His lair is formed of sharp points, and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense quantity of clay.

41:31  (41:22) He makes the deep boil like a bronze caldron, and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,

41:32  (41:23) and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range.

41:33  (41:24) There is nothing upon the earth like him, formed to be sported with by My angels.

41:34  (41:25) He beholds every high thing, and he is king of all that are in the waters.