οὐχ ἑόρακας αὐτὸν οὐδὲ ἐπὶ τοῖς λεγομένοις τεθαύμακας
Have you not seen him, and have you not marveled at the things spoken of him?
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οὐ δέδοικας ὅτι ἡτοίμασταί μοι τίς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ἐμοὶ ἀντιστάς
Have you not feared because it has been prepared for me? For who is the one who has stood against me?
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ἢ τίς ἀντιστήσεταί μοι καὶ ὑπομενεῖ εἰ πᾶσα ἡ ὑπ' οὐρανὸν ἐμή ἐστιν
Or who will resist me and endure, if everything under heaven is mine?
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οὐ σιωπήσομαι δι' αὐτόν καὶ λόγον δυνάμεως ἐλεήσει τὸν ἴσον αὐτοῦ
I will not keep silence because of him, nor because of a word of power; he will show mercy to his equal.
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τίς ἀποκαλύψει πρόσωπον ἐνδύσεως αὐτοῦ εἰς δὲ πτύξιν θώρακος αὐτοῦ τίς ἂν εἰσέλθοι
Who will uncover the face of his covering? And who would enter into the folds of his breastplate?
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πύλας προσώπου αὐτοῦ τίς ἀνοίξει κύκλῳ ὀδόντων αὐτοῦ φόβος
Who will open the gates of his face? Around his teeth is fear.
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τὰ ἔγκατα αὐτοῦ ἀσπίδες χάλκειαι σύνδεσμος δὲ αὐτοῦ ὥσπερ σμιρίτης λίθος
His inward parts are bronze shields, and his joining is like smyris stone.
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εἷς τοῦ ἑνὸς κολλῶνται πνεῦμα δὲ οὐ μὴ διέλθῃ αὐτόν
One clings to another, and breath will certainly not pass through him.
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ἀνὴρ τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ προσκολληθήσεται συνέχονται καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀποσπασθῶσιν
A man will be joined to his brother; they hold together and certainly will not be torn apart.
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ἐν πταρμῷ αὐτοῦ ἐπιφαύσκεται φέγγος οἱ δὲ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ εἶδος ἑωσφόρου
At his sneezing light shines forth, and his eyes are like the appearance of the morning star.
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ἐκ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἐκπορεύονται λαμπάδες καιόμεναι καὶ διαρριπτοῦνται ἐσχάραι πυρός
From his mouth come burning lamps, and fiery brands are scattered abroad.
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ἐκ μυκτήρων αὐτοῦ ἐκπορεύεται καπνὸς καμίνου καιομένης πυρὶ ἀνθράκων
From his nostrils comes smoke, like a furnace burning with coals of fire.
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ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ ἄνθρακες φλὸξ δὲ ἐκ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἐκπορεύεται
His breath is coals, and flame goes out from his mouth.
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ἐν δὲ τραχήλῳ αὐτοῦ αὐλίζεται δύναμις ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ τρέχει ἀπώλεια
And in his neck strength lodges; destruction runs before him.
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σάρκες δὲ σώματος αὐτοῦ κεκόλληνται καταχέει ἐπ' αὐτόν οὐ σαλευθήσεται
The flesh of his body has been welded together; it is poured out upon him and will not be shaken.
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ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ πέπηγεν ὡς λίθος ἕστηκεν δὲ ὥσπερ ἄκμων ἀνήλατος
His heart has hardened like stone; it stands like an unstruck anvil.
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στραφέντος δὲ αὐτοῦ φόβος θηρίοις τετράποσιν ἐπὶ γῆς ἁλλομένοις
When he turns, fear comes to the beasts, to the four-footed things leaping upon the earth.
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ἐὰν συναντήσωσιν αὐτῷ λόγχαι οὐδὲν μὴ ποιήσωσιν δόρυ ἐπηρμένον καὶ θώρακα
If spears meet him, they will accomplish nothing, nor spear uplifted nor breastplate.
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ἥγηται μὲν γὰρ σίδηρον ἄχυρα χαλκὸν δὲ ὥσπερ ξύλον σαθρόν
For he regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
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οὐ μὴ τρώσῃ αὐτὸν τόξον χάλκειον ἥγηται μὲν πετροβόλον χόρτον
A bronze bow will certainly not wound him; he regards the sling-stone as grass.
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ὡς καλάμη ἐλογίσθησαν σφῦραι καταγελᾷ δὲ σεισμοῦ πυρφόρου
Hammers were counted as stubble, and he laughs at the shaking of the fire-bearer.
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ἡ στρωμνὴ αὐτοῦ ὀβελίσκοι ὀξεῖς πᾶς δὲ χρυσὸς θαλάσσης ὑπ' αὐτὸν ὥσπερ πηλὸς ἀμύθητος
His bed is sharp spits, and every treasure of the sea beneath him is like boundless clay.
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ἀναζεῖ τὴν ἄβυσσον ὥσπερ χαλκεῖον ἥγηται δὲ τὴν θάλασσαν ὥσπερ ἐξάλειπτρον
He makes the abyss boil like a cauldron, and he regards the sea like a perfumer’s pot.
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τὸν δὲ τάρταρον τῆς ἀβύσσου ὥσπερ αἰχμάλωτον ἐλογίσατο ἄβυσσον εἰς περίπατον
And he considered the Tartarus of the abyss like a captive, and the abyss as a place for walking.
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οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὅμοιον αὐτῷ πεποιημένον ἐγκαταπαίζεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγγέλων μου
There is nothing on the earth like him, made to be mocked by my angels.
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πᾶν ὑψηλὸν ὁρᾷ αὐτὸς δὲ βασιλεὺς πάντων τῶν ἐν τοῖς ὕδασιν
He sees every high thing, and he himself is king of all that are in the waters.