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I will not keep silent concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come inside his jaws?

Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.

[His] strong scales are [his] back, Shut up together [as with] a close seal.

His sneezings flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Out of his mouth go burning torches, And sparks of fire leap forth.

Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, As of a boiling pot and [burning] rushes.

His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

In his neck abides strength, And terror dances before him.

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm on him; they can't be moved.

His heart is as firm as a stone; Yes, firm as the nether millstone.

His underparts are [like] sharp potsherds: He spreads [as it were] a threshing-wain on the mire.

On earth there is not his like, That is made without fear.

And Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then there came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.

But rather in the law of Yahweh, does he delight; and in his law does he meditate, day and night.

The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Yahweh, and against his anointed, [saying],

Then he will speak to them in his wrath, And in his intense displeasure, he will vex them: