41Job 41

CHAP. XLI. / Of Gods great power in the Leuiathan.

1Canst thou draw out Leuiathan with an hooke? or his tongue with a corde which thou lettest downe?Select Job 41:1

2Canst thou put an hooke into his nose? or bore his iawe through with a thorne?Select Job 41:2

3Will he make many supplications vnto thee? will he speake soft words vnto thee?Select Job 41:3

4Will he make a couenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a seruant for euer?Select Job 41:4

5Wilt thou play with him as with a birde? wilt thou binde him for thy maydens?Select Job 41:5

6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?Select Job 41:6

7Canst thou fill his skinne with barbed irons? or his head with fishspeares?Select Job 41:7

8Lay thine hand vpon him, remember the battell: doe no more.Select Job 41:8

9Behold, the hope of him is in vaine: shall not one be cast downe euen at the sight of him?Select Job 41:9

10None is so fierce that dare stirre him vp: who then is able to stand before me?Select Job 41:10

11Who hath preuented me that I should repay him? whatsoeuer is vnder the whole heauen, is mine.Select Job 41:11

12I will not conceale his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.Select Job 41:12

13Who can discouer the face of his garment? or who can come to him, with his double bridle?Select Job 41:13

14Who can open the doores of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.Select Job 41:14

15His scales are his pride, shut vp together as with a close seale.Select Job 41:15

16One is so neere to another, that no ayre can come betweene them.Select Job 41:16

17They are ioyned one to another, they sticke together, that they cannot be sundred.Select Job 41:17

18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eye-liddes of the morning.Select Job 41:18

19Out of his mouth goe burning lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out.Select Job 41:19

20Out of his nostrels goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.Select Job 41:20

21His breath kindleth coales, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.Select Job 41:21

22In his necke remaineth strength, and sorrowe is turned into ioy before him.Select Job 41:22

23The flakes of his flesh are ioyned together: they are firme in themselues, they cannot be moued.Select Job 41:23

24His heart is as firme as a stone, yea as hard as a peece of the nether mil-stone.Select Job 41:24

25When he rayseth vp himselfe, the mightie are afraid: by reason of breakings they purifie themselues.Select Job 41:25

26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the speare, the dart, nor the habergeon.Select Job 41:26

27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brasse as rotten wood.Select Job 41:27

28The arrow cannot make him flee: sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.Select Job 41:28

29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a speare.Select Job 41:29

30Sharpe stones are vnder him: he spreadeth sharpe pointed things vpon the mire.Select Job 41:30

31He maketh the deepe to boyle like a pot: hee maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment.Select Job 41:31

32Hee maketh a path to shine after him; one would thinke the deepe to bee hoarie.Select Job 41:32

33Upon earth there is not his like: who is made without feare.Select Job 41:33

34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king ouer all the children of pride.Select Job 41:34