📖 Job 41
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Darrest thou drawe out Leuiathan with an angle, or bynde his tonge with a snare?
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Canst thou put a rynge in the nose of him, or bore his chaftes thorow with a naule?
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Wyll he make many fayre wordes with the (thynkest thou) or flatre the:
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Wyll he make a couenaunt with the? Or, art thou able for to compell him to do the contynuall seruyce?
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Wilt thou take thy pastyne wt him as with a byrde, or geue him vnto thy maydens,
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that thy companyons maye hew him in peces, to be parted amonge the marchaunt men?
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Canst thou fyll the nett wt his skynne, or ye fysh panyer with his heade?
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Darrest thou laye honde vpon him? It is better for the to considre what harme might happe the there thorow and not to touch him.
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For when thou thynkest to haue holde vpon him, he shall begyle the: Euery man also that seyth him, shall go backe. And why?
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There darre none be so bolde, as to rayse him vp. Who is able to stonde before me?
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Or, who hath geuen me eny thynge afore hande, that I am bounde to rewarde him agayne? All thinges vnder heauen are myne.
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I feare him not, whether he threaten or speake fayre.
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Who lifteth him vp and stripeth him out of his clothes, or who taketh him by the bytt of his brydle?
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Who openeth the dore of his face? for he hath horrible tethe rounde aboute.
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His body is couered with scales as it were with shyldes, lockte in, kepte, and well copacte together.
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One is so ioyned to another, that no ayre can come in:
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Yee one hangeth so vpon another, and sticke so together, that they can not be sundered.
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His nesinge is like a glisteringe fyre, and his eyes like the mornynge shyne.
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Out of his mouth go torches and fyre brandes,
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out off his nostrels there goeth a smoke, like as out off an hote seetinge pott.
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His breth maketh the coales burne, the flame goeth out of his mouth.
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In his necke remayneth strength, and before his face sorowe is turned to gladnesse.
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The membres of his body are ioyned so strayte one to another, and cleue so fast together, that he can not be moued.
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His hert is as harde as a stone, ad as fast as the styth ye that the hammer man smyteth vpon.
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When he goeth: the mightiest off all are afrayed, and the wawes heuy.
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Yff he drawe out the swearde, there maye nether speare ner brest plate abyde him.
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He setteth as moch by a strawe as by yro, and as moch by a rotten stocke as by metall.
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He starteth not awaye for him that bendeth the bowe, & as for slynge stones, he careth as moch for stubble as for them
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He counteth the hammer no better then a strawe, he laugheth him to scorne that shaketh the speare.
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He treadeth the golde in the myre like ye sharpe potsherdes.
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He maketh the depe to seeth and boyle like a pott, and stereth the see together like an oyntment.
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The waye is light after him, the depe is his walkynge place.
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Vpon earth is there no power like vnto his, for he is so made, that he feareth not.
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Yff a man will cosidre all hye thinges, this same is a kynge ouer all the children off pryde.