Job 41:3-13

3 non parcam ei et verbis potentibus et ad deprecandum conpositis

4 quis revelavit faciem indumenti eius et in medium oris eius quis intrabit

5 portas vultus eius quis aperiet per gyrum dentium eius formido

6 corpus illius quasi scuta fusilia et conpactum squamis se prementibus

7 una uni coniungitur et ne spiraculum quidem incedit per eas

8 una alteri adherebunt et tenentes se nequaquam separabuntur

9 sternutatio eius splendor ignis et oculi eius ut palpebrae diluculi

10 de ore eius lampades procedunt sicut taedae ignis accensae

11 de naribus eius procedit fumus sicut ollae succensae atque ferventis

12 halitus eius prunas ardere facit et flamma de ore eius egreditur

13 in collo eius morabitur fortitudo et faciem eius praecedet egestas

Job 41:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 41

A large description is here given of the leviathan, from the difficulty and danger of taking it, from whence it is inferred that none can stand before God, Job 41:1-10; from the several parts of him, his face, teeth, scales, eyes, mouth and neck, flesh and heart, Job 41:11-24; and from various wonderful terrible things said of him, and ascribed to him, Job 41:25-34.