Job 41

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Any hope you might have would be futile, the mere sight of him would overwhelm you.	1 I will not rouse him, as the cruel would do, for who is able to withstand my countenance?
2 When roused, he grows ferocious, who could ever stand up to him?	2 Who has given to me beforehand, so 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 powerful words and counterfeit attempts at supplication.
4 Next I wil talk of his limbs and describe his matchless strength-	4 Who can reveal the beauty of his garment? And who can enter the middle 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? I gave fear to the circle of his teeth.
6 Who dare open the gates of his mouth? Terror reigns round his teeth!	6 His body is like shields fused together, like dense scales pressed over one another.
7 His back is like rows of shields, sealed with a stone seal,	7 One is joined to another, and not even air can pass between them.
8 touching each other so close that no breath could pass between,	8 They adhere to one another, and they hold themselves in place and will not be separated.
9 sticking to one another making an impervious whole.	9 His sneezing has the brilliance of fire, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
10 His sneezes radiate light, his eyes are like the eyelashes of the dawn.	10 Lamps proceed from his mouth, like torches of fire burning brightly.
11 From his mouth come fiery torches, sparks of fire fly out of it.	11 Smoke passes out of his nostrils, like a pot that is heated and boiling.
12 His nostrils belch smoke like a cauldron boiling on the fire.	12 His breath causes coal to burn, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
13 His breath could kindle coals, flame issues from his mouth.	13 Strength dwells in his neck, and destitution goes before his presence.
14 His strength resides in his neck, violence leaps before him as he goes.	14 The parts of his body work in harmony together. He will send lightning bolts against him, and they will not be carried to another place.
15 The strips of his flesh are jointed together, firmly set in and immovable.	15 His heart will be as hard as a stone and as dense as a blacksmith’s anvil.
16 His heart is as hard as rock unyielding as the lower mil stone.	16 When he will be raised up, the angels will be afraid, and, because they are terrified, they will purify themselves.
17 When he stands up, the waves take fright and the bil ows of the sea retreat.	17 When a sword catches up with him, it will not be able to settle in, 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 will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood.
19 Iron means no more to him than straw, nor bronze than rotten wood.	19 The archer will not cause him to flee; the stones of the sling have been turned into stubble for him.
20 No arrow can make him flee, a sling-stone tickles him like hay.	20 He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear.
21 Club seems to him like straw, he laughs at the whirring javelin.	21 The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay.
22 He has sharp potsherds underneath, and moves across the slime like a harrow.	22 He will make the depths of the sea boil like a pot, and he will set it to bubble just as ointments do.
23 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron, he makes the sea fume like a scent burner.	23 A path will shine after him; he will esteem the abyss as if it were weakening with age.
24 Behind him he leaves a glittering wake -- a white fleece seems to float on the deeps.	24 There is no power on the earth that is being compared to him, who has been made so that he fears no one.
25 He has no equal on earth, being created without fear.	25 He sees every prominent thing; he is king over all the sons of arrogance.
26 He looks the haughtiest in the eye; of al the lordly beasts he is king.