"24. Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?
"25. Shall friends" (Septuagint, "the nations") cut him in pieces, shall merchants" (Septuagint, "the generation of the Phœnicians") "divide him?" . . (chap. xli, v. 1. Douay version.)
"I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel; for who can resist my" (his?) "countenance," or, "who shall stand against me" (him?) "and live?" . . .
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"4. Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
"5. Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
"6. His body is like molten shields, shut close up, the scales pressing upon one another.
"7. One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them.
"8. They stick one to another, and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.
"9. His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning." (Syriac, "His look is brilliant." Arabic, "The apples of his eyes are fiery, and his eyes are like the brightness of the morning.")