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description: "A further description of the leviathan. Job 41 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Job 41

Job 41 is chapter 41 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 25 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> A further description of the leviathan.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 41 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. I will not rouse him, as the cruel would do, for who is able to withstand my countenance?
2. Who has given to me beforehand, so that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
3. I will not spare him, nor his powerful words and counterfeit attempts at supplication.
4. Who can reveal the beauty of his garment? And who can enter the middle of his mouth?
5. Who can open the doors of his face? I gave fear to the circle of his teeth.
6. His body is like shields fused together, like dense scales pressed over one another.
7. One is joined to another, and not even air can pass between them.
8. They adhere to one another, and they hold themselves in place and will not be separated.
9. His sneezing has the brilliance of fire, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
10. Lamps proceed from his mouth, like torches of fire burning brightly.
11. Smoke passes out of his nostrils, like a pot that is heated and boiling.
12. His breath causes coal to burn, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
13. Strength dwells in his neck, and destitution goes before his presence.
14. The parts of his body work in harmony together. He will send lightning bolts against him, and they will not be carried to another place.
15. His heart will be as hard as a stone and as dense as a blacksmith’s anvil.
16. When he will be raised up, the angels will be afraid, and, because they are terrified, they will purify themselves.
17. When a sword catches up with him, it will not be able to settle in, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
18. For he will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood.
19. The archer will not cause him to flee; the stones of the sling have been turned into stubble for him.
20. He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear.
21. The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay.
22. He will make the depths of the sea boil like a pot, and he will set it to bubble just as ointments do.
23. A path will shine after him; he will esteem the abyss as if it were weakening with age.
24. There is no power on the earth that is being compared to him, who has been made so that he fears no one.
25. He sees every prominent thing; he is king over all the sons of arrogance.

## Job 41 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Non quasi crudelis suscitabo eum: quis enim resistere potest vultui meo?
2. Quis ante dedit mihi, ut reddam ei? omnia quæ sub cælo sunt, mea sunt.
3. Non parcam ei, et verbis potentibus, et ad deprecandum compositis.
4. Quis revelabit faciem indumenti ejus? et in medium oris ejus quis intrabit?
5. Portas vultus ejus quis aperiet? per gyrum dentium ejus formido.
6. Corpus illius quasi scuta fusilia, compactum squamis se prementibus.
7. Una uni conjungitur, et ne spiraculum quidem incedit per eas.
8. Una alteri adhærebit, et tenentes se nequaquam separabuntur.
9. Sternutatio ejus splendor ignis, et oculi ejus ut palpebræ diluculi.
10. De ore ejus lampades procedunt, sicut tædæ ignis accensæ.
11. De naribus ejus procedit fumus, sicut ollæ succensæ atque ferventis.
12. Halitus ejus prunas ardere facit, et flamma de ore ejus egreditur.
13. In collo ejus morabitur fortitudo, et faciem ejus præcedit egestas.
14. Membra carnium ejus cohærentia sibi: mittet contra eum fulmina, et ad locum alium non ferentur.
15. Cor ejus indurabitur tamquam lapis, et stringetur quasi malleatoris incus.
16. Cum sublatus fuerit, timebunt angeli, et territi purgabuntur.
17. Cum apprehenderit eum gladius, subsistere non poterit, neque hasta, neque thorax:
18. reputabit enim quasi paleas ferrum, et quasi lignum putridum æs.
19. Non fugabit eum vir sagittarius: in stipulam versi sunt ei lapides fundæ.
20. Quasi stipulam æstimabit malleum, et deridebit vibrantem hastam.
21. Sub ipso erunt radii solis, et sternet sibi aurum quasi lutum.
22. Fervescere faciet quasi ollam profundum mare, et ponet quasi cum unguenta bulliunt.
23. Post eum lucebit semita: æstimabit abyssum quasi senescentem.
24. Non est super terram potestas quæ comparetur ei, qui factus est ut nullum timeret.
25. Omne sublime videt: ipse est rex super universos filios superbiæ.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 16: “Angels” … Elim, Hebrew: which signifies here, the mighty, the most valiant, shall fear this monstrous fish, and in their fear shall seek to be purified.
- Verse 21: “Under him” … He shall not value the beams of the sun; and gold to him shall be like mire.
- Verse 23: Growing hoary, as it were with the froth which he leaves behind him.
- Verse 25: “He is king” … He is superior in strength to all that are great and strong amongst living creatures: mystically it is understood of the devil, who is king over all the proud.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).