- 1. Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
- 2. Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
- 3. Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?
- 4. Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?
- 5. Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:
- 6. Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low.
- 7. Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.
- 8. Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
- 9. Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.
- 10. See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.
- 11. His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach.
- 12. His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together.
- 13. His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.
- 14. He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.
- 15. He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.
- 16. He takes his rest under the trees of the river, and in the pool, under the shade of the water-plants.
- 17. He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.
- 18. Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.
- 19. Will anyone take him when he is on the watch, or put metal teeth through his nose?
- 20. Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?
- 21. Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?
- 22. Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?
- 23. Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?
- 24. Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?
- 25. Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?
- 26. Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?
- 27. Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!
- 28. Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!
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