Job 41

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Whoever might vainly hope to do so need only see him to be overthrown.	1 I will not rouse him, as the cruel would do, for who is able to withstand my countenance?
2 Is he not relentless when aroused; who then dares stand before 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 assailed him and come off safe-- Who under all the heavens?	3 I will not spare him, nor his powerful words and counterfeit attempts at supplication.
4 I need hardly mention his limbs, his strength, and the fitness of his armor.	4 Who can reveal the beauty of his garment? And who can enter the middle 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? I gave fear to the circle of his teeth.
6 Who can force open the doors of his mouth, close to his terrible teeth?	6 His body is like shields fused together, like dense scales pressed over one another.
7 Rows of scales are on his back, tightly sealed together;	7 One is joined to another, and not even air can pass between them.
8 They are fitted each so close to the next that no space intervenes;	8 They adhere to one another, and they hold themselves in place and will not be separated.
9 So joined one to another that they hold fast and cannot be parted.	9 His sneezing has the brilliance of fire, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
10 When he sneezes, light flashes forth; his eyes are like those of the dawn.	10 Lamps proceed from his mouth, like torches of fire burning brightly.
11 Out of his mouth go forth firebrands; sparks of fire leap forth.	11 Smoke passes out of his nostrils, like a pot that is heated and boiling.
12 From his nostrils issues steam, as from a seething pot or bowl.	12 His breath causes coal to burn, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
13 His breath sets coals afire; a flame pours from his mouth.	13 Strength dwells in his neck, and destitution goes before his presence.
14 Strength abides in his neck, and terror leaps before him.	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 His heart will be as hard as a stone and as dense as a blacksmith’s anvil.
16 His heart is hard as stone; his flesh, as the lower millstone.	16 When he will be raised up, the angels will be afraid, and, because they are terrified, they will purify themselves.
17 When he rises up, the mighty are afraid; the waves of the sea fall back.	17 When a sword catches up with him, it will not be able to settle in, 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 will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood.
19 He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.	19 The archer will not cause him to flee; the stones of the sling have been turned into stubble for him.
20 The arrow will not put him to flight; slingstones used against him are but straws.	20 He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear.
21 Clubs he esteems as splinters; he laughs at the crash of the spear.	21 The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay.
22 His belly is sharp as pottery fragments; he spreads like a threshing sledge upon the mire.	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 boil like a pot; the sea he churns like perfume in a kettle.	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 shining path; you would think the deep had the hoary head of age.	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 Upon the earth there is not his like, intrepid he was made.	25 He sees every prominent thing; he is king over all the sons of arrogance.