Job 41

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