Job 41

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Whoever might vainly hope to do so need only see him to be overthrown.	1 I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel : for who can resist my countenance?
2 Is he not relentless when aroused; who then dares stand before him?	2 Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
3 Who has assailed him and come off safe-- Who under all the heavens?	3 I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.
4 I need hardly mention his limbs, his strength, and the fitness of his armor.	4 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
5 Who can strip off his outer garment, or penetrate his double corselet?	5 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
6 Who can force open the doors of his mouth, close to his terrible teeth?	6 His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.
7 Rows of scales are on his back, tightly sealed together;	7 One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them :
8 They are fitted each so close to the next that no space intervenes;	8 They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.
9 So joined one to another that they hold fast and cannot be parted.	9 His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.
10 When he sneezes, light flashes forth; his eyes are like those of the dawn.	10 Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.
11 Out of his mouth go forth firebrands; sparks of fire leap forth.	11 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.
12 From his nostrils issues steam, as from a seething pot or bowl.	12 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
13 His breath sets coals afire; a flame pours from his mouth.	13 In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face.
14 Strength abides in his neck, and terror leaps before him.	14 The members of his flesh cleave one to another : he shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.
	15 His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith's anvil.
16 His heart is hard as stone; his flesh, as the lower millstone.	16 When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves.
17 When he rises up, the mighty are afraid; the waves of the sea fall back.	17 When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
18 Should the sword reach him, it will not avail; nor will the spear, nor the dart, nor the javelin.	18 For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
19 He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.	19 The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.
20 The arrow will not put him to flight; slingstones used against him are but straws.	20 As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
21 Clubs he esteems as splinters; he laughs at the crash of the spear.	21 The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
22 His belly is sharp as pottery fragments; he spreads like a threshing sledge upon the mire.	22 He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.
23 He makes the depths boil like a pot; the sea he churns like perfume in a kettle.	23 A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing old.
24 Behind him he leaves a shining path; you would think the deep had the hoary head of age.	24 There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one.
25 Upon the earth there is not his like, intrepid he was made.	25 He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children of pride.