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THE BOOK

CHAP. XL.

Our Lord further sheweth that mans power, nor iustice, is not comparable to Gods: 10. as appeareth in ouercomming Behemoth, 20. and Leuiathan.

AND our Lord answering Iob out of the whirlewind, sayd: 2Gird thy loynes as a man: I wil aske thee, & doe thou tel me. 3 Shalt thou make my [1] iudgement of none effect: and condemne me, that thou mayst be iustified? 4And hast thou an arme as God, and dost thou thunder with like voice? 5Put beautie about thee, and set vp thy selfe aloft, and be glorious, and put on goodlie garments. 6Disperse the proud in thy furie, and beholding euerie arrogant man, humble him. 7Behold al the proud, and confound them, and destroy the impious in their place. 8Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces in the pit. 9And I wil confesse, that thy right hand is able to saue thee. 10Behold, [2] Behemoth whom I made with thee, shal eate hay as it were an oxe. 11His strength is in his loynes, and his power in the nauil of his bellie. 12He gathereth together his taile as the cedar tree, the sinewes of his stones are perplexe. 13His bones are as pipes of brasse, his gristle as it were plates of iron. 14He is the beginning of the wayes of God, which made him, he shal applie his sword. 15To him the mountaines beare grasse: al the beasts of the field shal play there. 16He sleepeth vnder the shadow, in the secret of the reed, and in moyst places. 17Shadowes doe protect his shadow, the willowes of the torrent shal compasse him. 18Loe, he shal sup vp the riuer, & shal not meruaile: and he hath confidence that Iordan may runne into his mouth. 19In his eies as with a hook he shal take him, and with stakes he shal boare through his nosthrels. 20Canst thou drawe out the [3] Leuiathan with a hooke, and with a rope shalt thou tye his tongue? 21Shalt thou put a ring in his nosthrels, or bore through his iaw with a buckle? 22Wil he multiplie prayers to thee, or speake to thee gentle words? 23Wil he make a couenant with thee, and shalt thou take him to be a seruant for euer? 24Shalt thou delude him as a birde, or tye him for thy handmayds? 25Shal freinds cut him, merchants diuide him? 26Shalt thou fil nettes with his skinne, and the cabbin of fishes with his head? 27Lay thy hand vpon him: remember battel, and adde to speake no more. 28Behold his hope shal frustrate him, and in the sight of al he shal be cast downe headlong.

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  1. ↑ Though Iob had truly auouched that his sinnes deserued not so great afflictions, yet he ought to haue acknowledged that God afflicted him iustly, for some other cause knowne to God, but vnknowen to him: which he not confessing seemed to make Gods iudgement vniust: or, of none effect. S. Greg. l. 32 c. 3.
  2. ↑ An Elephant the greatest of al beasts, of long life, strong, meeke, temperate, chast, ouercome by the Vnicorne, or Dragon, or taken by the nose & led away. How much more doth Gods prouidence giue man power to ouercome the diuel?
  3. ↑ An huge great fish, perhaps the whale, exceeding mans power to be managed, yet is subiect (as also the diuel signified therby) to Gods power, & prouidence.
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