Job 41

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Any hope you might have would be futile, the mere sight of him would overwhelm you.	1 I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel : for who can resist my countenance?
2 When roused, he grows ferocious, who could ever stand up to him?	2 Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
3 Who has ever attacked him with impunity? No one beneath al heaven!	3 I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.
4 Next I wil talk of his limbs and describe his matchless strength-	4 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
5 who can undo the front of his tunic or pierce the double armour of his breastplate?	5 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
6 Who dare open the gates of his mouth? Terror reigns round his teeth!	6 His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.
7 His back is like rows of shields, sealed with a stone seal,	7 One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them :
8 touching each other so close that no breath could pass between,	8 They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.
9 sticking to one another making an impervious whole.	9 His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.
10 His sneezes radiate light, his eyes are like the eyelashes of the dawn.	10 Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.
11 From his mouth come fiery torches, sparks of fire fly out of it.	11 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.
12 His nostrils belch smoke like a cauldron boiling on the fire.	12 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
13 His breath could kindle coals, flame issues from his mouth.	13 In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face.
14 His strength resides in his neck, violence leaps before him as he goes.	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 The strips of his flesh are jointed together, firmly set in and immovable.	15 His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith's anvil.
16 His heart is as hard as rock unyielding as the lower mil stone.	16 When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves.
17 When he stands up, the waves take fright and the bil ows of the sea retreat.	17 When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
18 Sword may strike but will not stick in him, no more will spear, javelin or lance.	18 For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
19 Iron means no more to him than straw, nor bronze than rotten wood.	19 The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.
20 No arrow can make him flee, a sling-stone tickles him like hay.	20 As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
21 Club seems to him like straw, he laughs at the whirring javelin.	21 The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
22 He has sharp potsherds underneath, and moves across the slime like a harrow.	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 seethe like a cauldron, he makes the sea fume like a scent burner.	23 A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing old.
24 Behind him he leaves a glittering wake -- a white fleece seems to float on the deeps.	24 There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one.
25 He has no equal on earth, being created without fear.	25 He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children of pride.
26 He looks the haughtiest in the eye; of al the lordly beasts he is king.