Job
Chapter 41
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I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel: for who can resist my countenance?
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Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
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I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.
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Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
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Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
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His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.
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One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them:
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They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.
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His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.
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Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.
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Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.
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His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
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In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face.
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The members of his flesh cleave one to another: he shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.
- 15
His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith's anvil.
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When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves.
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When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
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For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
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The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.
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As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
- 21
The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
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He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.
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A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing old.
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There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one.
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He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children of pride.