The Book of Job 41

^1✦ Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down ⚑

^2✦ Canst thou put an hook into his nose or bore his jaw through with a thorn ⚑

^3✦ Will he make many supplications unto thee will he speak soft words unto thee ⚑

^4✦ Will he make a covenant with thee wilt thou take him for a servant for ever ⚑

^5✦ Wilt thou play with him as with a bird or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens ⚑

^6✦ Shall the companions make a banquet of him shall they part him among the merchants ⚑

^7✦ Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons or his head with fish spears ⚑

^8✦ Lay thine hand upon him remember the battle do no more ⚑

^9✦ Behold the hope of him is in vain shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him ⚑

^10✦ None is so fierce that dare stir him up who then is able to stand before me ⚑

^11✦ Who hath prevented me that I should repay him whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine ⚑

^12✦ I will not conceal his parts nor his power nor his comely proportion ⚑

^13✦ Who can discover the face of his garment or who can come to him with his double bridle ⚑

^14✦ Who can open the doors of his face his teeth are terrible round about ⚑

^15✦ His scales are his pride shut up together as with a close seal ⚑

^16✦ One is so near to another that no air can come between them ⚑

^17✦ They are joined one to another they stick together that they cannot be sundered ⚑

^18✦ By his neesings a light doth shine and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning ⚑

^19✦ Out of his mouth go burning lamps and sparks of fire leap out ⚑

^20✦ Out of his nostrils goeth smoke as out of a seething pot or caldron ⚑

^21✦ His breath kindleth coals and a flame goeth out of his mouth ⚑

^22✦ In his neck remaineth strength and sorrow is turned into joy before him ⚑

^23✦ The flakes of his flesh are joined together they are firm in themselves they cannot be moved ⚑

^24✦ His heart is as firm as a stone yea as hard as a piece of the nether millstone ⚑

^25✦ When he raiseth up himself the mighty are afraid by reason of breakings they purify themselves ⚑

^26✦ The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold the spear the dart nor the habergeon ⚑

^27✦ He esteemeth iron as straw and brass as rotten wood ⚑

^28✦ The arrow cannot make him flee slingstones are turned with him into stubble ⚑

^29✦ Darts are counted as stubble he laugheth at the shaking of a spear ⚑

³⁰ Sharp stones are under him he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire ⚑

^31✦ He maketh the deep to boil like a pot he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment ⚑

^32✦ He maketh a path to shine after him one would think the deep to be hoary ⚑

^33✦ Upon earth there is not his like who is made without fear ⚑

^34✦ He beholdeth all high things he is a king over all the children of pride ⚑