The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron.

He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will apply his sword.

To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.

He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in moist places.

The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.

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

In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.

Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?

Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?

Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?

Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever,

Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?

Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?

Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with his head?

Lay thy hand upon him: remember the battle, and speak no more.

Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down.

I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel, for who can resist my countenance?

Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.

I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.

Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?

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

His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.

One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them:

They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.

His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.

Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.

Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.

His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.

In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face.

The members of his flesh cleave one to another: he shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.

His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith's anvil,

When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves.

When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.

For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.

As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.

The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.

He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.

A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing old.

There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one,

He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children of pride.

Then Job answered the Lord, and said:

I know that thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from thee.

Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge.

Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee.

Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.

And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before me, as my servant Job hath.

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.

So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite went, and did as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face of Job.

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.

And the Lord 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-asses.

And he had seven sons, and three daughters.

And he called the name of one Dies, and the name of the second Cassia, and the name of the third Cornustibii.

And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation, and he died an old man, and full of days.

Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.

For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?

The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us.

He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them.

Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his rage.

But I am appointed king by him over Sion, his holy mountain, preaching his commandment.

The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth.

Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.

Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way.

When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.

The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom.

Why, O Lord, are they multipied that affict me? many are they who rise up against me.

Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God.

But thou, O Lord, art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

I have cried to the Lord with my voice: and he hath heard me from his holy hill.

I have slept and have taken my rest: and I have risen up, because the Lord hath protected me.

I will not fear thousands of the people surrounding me: arise, O Lord; save me, O my God.

For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

Salvation is of the Lord: and thy blessing is upon thy people.

Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David.

When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer.

O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?

Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.

Be ye angry, and sin not: the things you say in your hearts, be sorry for them upon your beds.

Offer up the sacrifice of justice, and trust in the Lord: many say, Who sheweth us good things?

The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.

By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and oil, they rest:

In peace in the self same I will sleep, and I will rest:

For thou, O Lord, singularly hast settled me in hope.

Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm for David.

Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry.

Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God.

For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.

In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.