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Job 41 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Job 41:1(LXX 40:25) But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
Job 41:2(LXX 40:26) Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?
Job 41:3(LXX 40:27) Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
Job 41:4(LXX 40:28) And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?
Job 41:5(LXX 40:29) And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
Job 41:6(LXX 40:30) And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phœnicians share him?
Job 41:7(LXX 40:31) And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither shall they carry his head in fishing-vessels.
Job 41:8(LXX 40:32) But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him once, remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more.
Job 41:9(LXX 41:1) Hast thou not seen him? and hast thou not wondered at the things said of him?
Job 41:10(LXX 41:2) Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?
Job 41:11(LXX 41:3) Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole world under heaven is mine?
Job 41:12(LXX 41:4) I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist.
Job 41:13(LXX 41:5) Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breast-plate?
Job 41:14(LXX 41:6) Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.
Job 41:15(LXX 41:7) His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his skin as a smyrite stone.
Job 41:16(LXX 41:8) One part cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them.
Job 41:17(LXX 41:9) They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated.
Job 41:18(LXX 41:10) At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star.
Job 41:19(LXX 41:11) Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
Job 41:20(LXX 41:12) Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
Job 41:21(LXX 41:13) His breath is as live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
Job 41:22(LXX 41:14) And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
Job 41:23(LXX 41:15) The flesh also of his body is joined together: if one pours violence upon him, he shall not be moved.
Job 41:24(LXX 41:16) His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
Job 41:25(LXX 41:17) And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.
Job 41:26(LXX 41:18) If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, either with the spear or the breast-plate.
Job 41:27(LXX 41:19) For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.
Job 41:28(LXX 41:20) The bow of brass shall not wound him, he deems a slinger as grass.
Job 41:29(LXX 41:21) Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
Job 41:30(LXX 41:22) His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is as an immense quantity of clay.
Job 41:31(LXX 41:23) He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
Job 41:32(LXX 41:24) and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range.
Job 41:33(LXX 41:25) There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.
Job 41:34(LXX 41:26) He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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