A further description of the leviathan.
41:1. I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel, for who can
resist my countenance?
41:2. Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that
are under heaven are mine.
41:3. I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make
supplication.
41:4. Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the
midst of his mouth?
41:5. Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round
about.
41:6. His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales
pressing upon one another.
41:7. One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come
between them:
41:8. They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and
shall not be separated.
41:9. His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the
eyelids of the morning.
41:10. Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.
41:11. Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and
boiling.
41:12. His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his
mouth.
41:13. In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his
face.
41:14. The members of his flesh cleave one to another: he shall send
lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.
41:15. His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith's
anvil,
41:16. When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being
affrighted shall purify themselves.
Angels. . .Elim, Hebrew: which signifies here, the mighty, the most
valiant, shall fear this monstrous fish, and in their fear shall seek
to be purified.
41:17. When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor
a spear, nor a breastplate.
41:18. For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
41:19. The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling
are to him like stubble.
41:20. As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to
scorn who shaketh the spear.
41:21. The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold
under him like mire.
Under him. . .He shall not value the beams of the sun; and gold to him
shall be like mire.
41:22. He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it
as when ointments boil.
41:23. A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as
growing old.
The deep as growing old. . .Growing hoary, as it were with the froth
which he leaves behind him.
41:24. There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who
was made to fear no one,
41:25. He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children
of pride.
He is king, etc. . .He is superior in strength to all that are great and
strong amongst living creatures: mystically it is understood of the
devil, who is king over all the proud.