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(40-18) Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.

(40-19) In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.

(40-20) Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?

(40-21) Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?

(40-26) Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with his head?

(40-28) Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down.

(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.

(41-9) 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,

Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.

The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

And all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and all that knew him before, and they ate bread with him in his house: and bemoaned him, and comforted him upon all the evil that God had brought upon him. And every man gave him one ewe, and one earring of gold.