- 1. Canst thou drawe out Liuiathan with an hooke, and with a line which thou shalt cast downe vnto his tongue?
- 2. Canst thou cast an hooke into his nose? canst thou perce his iawes with an angle?
- 3. Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire?
- 4. Will hee make a couenant with thee? and wilt thou take him as a seruant for euer?
- 5. Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes?
- 6. Shall the companions baket with him? shal they deuide him among the marchants?
- 7. Canst thou fill the basket with his skinne? or the fishpanier with his head?
- 8. Lay thine hand vpon him: remember the battel, and do no more so.
- 9. Behold, his hope is in vaine: for shal not one perish euen at the sight of him?
- 10. None is so fearce that dare stirre him vp. Who is he then that can stand before me?
- 11. Who hath preuented mee that I shoulde make an ende? Al vnder heauen is mine.
- 12. I will not keepe silence concerning his partes, nor his power nor his comely proportion.
- 13. Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle?
- 14. Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull ronnd about.
- 15. The maiestie of his scales is like strog shields, and are sure sealed.
- 16. One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them.
- 17. One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered.
- 18. His niesings make the light to shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
- 19. Out of his mouth go lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out.
- 20. Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron.
- 21. His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.
- 22. In his necke remayneth strength, & labour is reiected before his face.
- 23. The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued.
- 24. His heart is as strong as a stone, & as hard as the nether milstone.
- 25. The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues.
- 26. When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon.
- 27. He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood.
- 28. The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him:
- 29. The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare.
- 30. Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre.
- 31. He maketh the depth to boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment.
- 32. He maketh a path to shine after him: one would thinke the depth as an hoare head.
- 33. In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare.
- 34. He beholdeth al hie things: he is a King ouer all the children of pride.
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