Skip to content
Apoteichisis

The Old Testament

Job 41

ΙΩΒ · 41

Brenton 41:1

Hast thou not seen him? and hast thou not wondered at the things said of him?

Brenton 41:2

Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?

Brenton 41:3

Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole world under heaven is mine?

Brenton 41:4

I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist.

Brenton 41:5

Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breast-plate?

Brenton 41:6

Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.

Brenton 41:7

His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his skin as a smyrite stone.

Brenton 41:8

One part cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them.

Brenton 41:9

They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated.

Brenton 41:10

At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star.

Brenton 41:11

Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.

Brenton 41:12

Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.

Brenton 41:13

His breath is as live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

Brenton 41:14

And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.

Brenton 41:15

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

Brenton 41:16

His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.

Brenton 41:17

And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.

Brenton 41:18

If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, either with the spear or the breast-plate.

Brenton 41:19

For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.

Brenton 41:20

The bow of brass shall not wound him, he deems a slinger as grass.

Brenton 41:21

Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.

Brenton 41:22

His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is as an immense quantity of clay.

Brenton 41:23

He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,

Brenton 41:24

and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range.

Brenton 41:25

There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.

Brenton 41:26

He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.

Brenton supplied wording, small capitals, translation notes, Greek wording, and edition-specific verse identifiers are retained. Parallel passages keep each edition's own references. Editions and sources.