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Canst thou put an hooke into his nose? or bore his iawe through with a thorne?

Canst thou fill his skinne with barbed irons? or his head with fishspeares?

I will not conceale his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

Who can discouer the face of his garment? or who can come to him, with his double bridle?

Who can open the doores of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

His scales are his pride, shut vp together as with a close seale.

By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eye-liddes of the morning.

Out of his mouth goe burning lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out.

Out of his nostrels goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

His breath kindleth coales, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

In his necke remaineth strength, and sorrowe is turned into ioy before him.

The flakes of his flesh are ioyned together: they are firme in themselues, they cannot be moued.

His heart is as firme as a stone, yea as hard as a peece of the nether mil-stone.

Upon earth there is not his like: who is made without feare.

And the Lord turned the captiuitie of Iob, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gaue Iob twice as much as he had before.

Then came there vnto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had bin of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoned him, and comforted him ouer all the euill that the Lord had brought vpon him: euery man also gaue him a piece of money, and euery one an eare-ring of gold.

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Iob, more then his beginning: for he had fourteene thousand sheepe, and sixe thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand shee asses.

After this liued Iob an hundred and fourtie yeeres, and saw his sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes, euen foure generations.

But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his Law doeth he meditate day and night.

And he shalbe like a tree planted by the riuers of water, that bringeth foorth his fruit in his season, his leafe also shall not wither, and whatsoeuer he doeth, shall prosper.