Job 41

¹I will not rouse him, as the cruel would do, for who is able to withstand my countenance

²Who has given to me beforehand, so that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine

³I will not spare him, nor his powerful words and counterfeit attempts at supplication

⁴Who can reveal the beauty of his garment? And who can enter the middle of his mouth

⁵Who can open the doors of his face? I gave fear to the circle of his teeth

⁶His body is like shields fused together, like dense scales pressed over one another

⁷One is joined to another, and not even air can pass between them

⁸They adhere to one another, and they hold themselves in place and will not be separated

⁹His sneezing has the brilliance of fire, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning

¹⁰Lamps proceed from his mouth, like torches of fire burning brightly

¹¹Smoke passes out of his nostrils, like a pot that is heated and boiling

¹²His breath causes coal to burn, and a flame comes forth from his mouth

¹³Strength dwells in his neck, and destitution goes before his presence

¹⁴The parts of his body work in harmony together. He will send lightning bolts against him, and they will not be carried to another place

¹⁵His heart will be as hard as a stone and as dense as a blacksmith’s anvil

¹⁶When he will be raised up, the angels will be afraid, and, because they are terrified, they will purify themselves

¹⁷When a sword catches up with him, it will not be able to settle in, nor a spear, nor a breastplate

¹⁸For he will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood

¹⁹The archer will not cause him to flee; the stones of the sling have been turned into stubble for him

²⁰He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear

²¹The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay

²²He will make the depths of the sea boil like a pot, and he will set it to bubble just as ointments do

²³A path will shine after him; he will esteem the abyss as if it were weakening with age

²⁴There is no power on the earth that is being compared to him, who has been made so that he fears no one

²⁵He sees every prominent thing; he is king over all the sons of arrogance