Job 41 Clementine Vulgate
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1 [Non quasi crudelis suscitabo eum: quis enim resistere potest vultui meo?
1 “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Quis ante dedit mihi, ut reddam ei? omnia quæ sub cælo sunt, mea sunt.
2 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
3 Non parcam ei, et verbis potentibus, et ad deprecandum compositis.
3 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
4 Quis revelabit faciem indumenti ejus? et in medium oris ejus quis intrabit?
4 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
5 Portas vultus ejus quis aperiet? per gyrum dentium ejus formido.
5 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
6 Corpus illius quasi scuta fusilia, compactum squamis se prementibus.
6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
7 Una uni conjungitur, et ne spiraculum quidem incedit per eas.
7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
8 Una alteri adhærebit, et tenentes se nequaquam separabuntur.
8 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
9 Sternutatio ejus splendor ignis, et oculi ejus ut palpebræ diluculi.
9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 De ore ejus lampades procedunt, sicut tædæ ignis accensæ.
10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
11 De naribus ejus procedit fumus, sicut ollæ succensæ atque ferventis.
11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
12 Halitus ejus prunas ardere facit, et flamma de ore ejus egreditur.
12 “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
13 In collo ejus morabitur fortitudo, et faciem ejus præcedit egestas.
13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?
14 Membra carnium ejus cohærentia sibi: mittet contra eum fulmina, et ad locum alium non ferentur.
14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
15 Cor ejus indurabitur tamquam lapis, et stringetur quasi malleatoris incus.
15 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
16 Cum sublatus fuerit, timebunt angeli, et territi purgabuntur.
16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17 Cum apprehenderit eum gladius, subsistere non poterit, neque hasta, neque thorax:
17 They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.
18 reputabit enim quasi paleas ferrum, et quasi lignum putridum æs.
18 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Non fugabit eum vir sagittarius: in stipulam versi sunt ei lapides fundæ.
19 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.
20 Quasi stipulam æstimabit malleum, et deridebit vibrantem hastam.
20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 Sub ipso erunt radii solis, et sternet sibi aurum quasi lutum.
21 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.
22 Fervescere faciet quasi ollam profundum mare, et ponet quasi cum unguenta bulliunt.
22 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
23 Post eum lucebit semita: æstimabit abyssum quasi senescentem.
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.
24 Non est super terram potestas quæ comparetur ei, qui factus est ut nullum timeret.
24 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
25 Omne sublime videt: ipse est rex super universos filios superbiæ.]
25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing. 26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. 27 He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. 28 The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him. 29 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin. 30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. 31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. 32 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair. 33 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear. 34 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 27:1; Job 3:8; Psalm 74:14; Psalm 104:26
- 2 Isaiah 37:29; Ezekiel 29:4–5; 2 Kings 19:28; Isaiah 27:1
- 3 Proverbs 18:23; Isaiah 30:10; Proverbs 25:15; Proverbs 15:1; Psalm 55:21
- 4 Exodus 21:6; Deuteronomy 15:17; 1 Kings 20:31–34; Genesis 1:28; Psalm 8:5–6
- 5 Judges 16:25–30; Job 28:11
- 6 Judges 14:11
- 8 1 Kings 20:11; Luke 14:31–32; 2 Kings 10:4
- 9 Luke 21:11; 1 Samuel 3:11; Isaiah 28:19; Deuteronomy 28:34
- 10 Job 9:4; Jeremiah 12:5; Numbers 24:9; Job 3:8; 1 Corinthians 10:22
- 11 Romans 11:35; Psalm 24:1; 1 Chronicles 29:11–14; Job 35:7; Deuteronomy 10:14
- 12 Genesis 1:25
- 13 James 3:3; 2 Kings 19:28; Psalm 32:9
- 14 Ecclesiastes 12:4; Psalm 58:6; Daniel 7:7; Psalm 57:4; Job 38:10
- 15 Jeremiah 9:23; Revelation 5:2–3; Revelation 5:5
- 18 Job 3:9; Revelation 1:14
- 19 Psalm 18:8
- 20 Jeremiah 1:13–14
- 21 Psalm 18:8; Isaiah 30:33; Habakkuk 3:5; Psalm 18:12
- 22 Hosea 13:14; Job 40:16; 1 Corinthians 15:55–57; Job 39:19
- 24 Isaiah 48:4; Jeremiah 5:3; Zechariah 7:12
- 25 Jonah 1:4–6; Psalm 107:28
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