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Job
Explores the themes of suffering and faith through the story of Job, a man tested by losing everything.
Chapter 41
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1
KJV:
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Geneva:
(40:20) Canst thou drawe out Liuiathan with an hooke, and with a line which thou shalt cast downe vnto his tongue?
2
KJV:
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Geneva:
(40:21) Canst thou cast an hooke into his nose? canst thou perce his iawes with an angle?
3
KJV:
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
Geneva:
(40:22) Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire?
4
KJV:
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Geneva:
(40:23) Will hee make a couenant with thee? and wilt thou take him as a seruant for euer?
5
KJV:
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Geneva:
(40:24) Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes?
6
KJV:
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
Geneva:
(40:25) Shall the companions baket with him? shal they deuide him among the marchants?
7
KJV:
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Geneva:
(40:26) Canst thou fill the basket with his skinne? or the fishpanier with his head?
8
KJV:
Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
Geneva:
(40:27) Lay thine hand vpon him: remember the battel, and do no more so.
9
KJV:
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Geneva:
(40:28) Behold, his hope is in vaine: for shal not one perish euen at the sight of him?
10
KJV:
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
Geneva:
(41:1) None is so fearce that dare stirre him vp. Who is he then that can stand before me?
11
KJV:
Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
Geneva:
(41:2) Who hath preuented mee that I shoulde make an ende? Al vnder heauen is mine.
12
KJV:
I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
Geneva:
(41:3) I will not keepe silence concerning his partes, nor his power nor his comely proportion.
13
KJV:
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
Geneva:
(41:4) Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle?
14
KJV:
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
Geneva:
(41:5) Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull ronnd about.
15
KJV:
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Geneva:
(41:6) The maiestie of his scales is like strog shields, and are sure sealed.
16
KJV:
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Geneva:
(41:7) One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them.
17
KJV:
They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
Geneva:
(41:8) One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered.
18
KJV:
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Geneva:
(41:9) His niesings make the light to shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19
KJV:
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
Geneva:
(41:10) Out of his mouth go lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out.
20
KJV:
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
Geneva:
(41:11) Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron.
21
KJV:
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Geneva:
(41:12) His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22
KJV:
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
Geneva:
(41:13) In his necke remayneth strength, & labour is reiected before his face.
23
KJV:
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
Geneva:
(41:14) The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued.
24
KJV:
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Geneva:
(41:15) His heart is as strong as a stone, & as hard as the nether milstone.
25
KJV:
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
Geneva:
(41:16) The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues.
26
KJV:
The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
Geneva:
(41:17) When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon.
27
KJV:
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
Geneva:
(41:18) He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood.
28
KJV:
The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
Geneva:
(41:19) The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him:
29
KJV:
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
Geneva:
(41:20) The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare.
30
KJV:
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
Geneva:
(41:21) Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre.
31
KJV:
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Geneva:
(41:22) He maketh the depth to boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment.
32
KJV:
He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Geneva:
(41:23) He maketh a path to shine after him: one would thinke the depth as an hoare head.
33
KJV:
Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
Geneva:
(41:24) In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare.
34
KJV:
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
Geneva:
(41:25) He beholdeth al hie things: he is a King ouer all the children of pride.
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