Job 41
1 to draw Leviathan in/on/with hook and in/on/with cord to sink tongue his
Whether thou schalt mowe drawe out leuyathan with an hook, and schalt bynde with a roop his tunge?
2 to set: put bulrush in/on/with face: nose his and in/on/with thistle to pierce jaw his
Whethir thou schalt putte a ryng in hise nosethirlis, ethir schalt perse hyse cheke with `an hook?
3 to multiply to(wards) you supplication if: surely yes to speak: speak to(wards) you tender
Whether he schal multiplie preieris to thee, ether schal speke softe thingis to thee?
4 to cut: make(covenant) covenant with you to take: take him to/for servant/slave forever: enduring
Whether he schal make couenaunt with thee, and `thou schalt take him a seruaunt euerlastinge?
5 to laugh in/on/with him like/as bird and to conspire him to/for maiden your
Whether thou schalt scorne hym as a brid, ethir schalt bynde hym to thin handmaidis?
6 to trade upon him associate to divide him between: among merchant
Schulen frendis `kerue hym, schulen marchauntis departe hym?
7 to fill in/on/with spear skin his and in/on/with spear fish head his
Whether thou schalt fille nettis with his skyn, and a `leep of fischis with his heed?
8 to set: put upon him palm your to remember battle not to add: again
Schalt thou putte thin hond on hym? haue thou mynde of the batel, and adde no more to speke.
9 look! hope his to lie also to(wards) appearance his to cast
Lo! his hope schal disseyue hym; and in the siyt of alle men he schal be cast doun.
10 not cruel for to rouse him and who? he/she/it to/for face: before my to stand
I not as cruel schal reise hym; for who may ayenstonde my face?
11 who? to meet me and to complete underneath: under all [the] heaven to/for me he/she/it
And who `yaf to me bifore, that Y yelde to hym? Alle thingis, that ben vndur heuene, ben myne.
12 (to/for him *Q(K)*) be quiet bluster his and word: thing might and beauty valuation his
Y schal not spare hym for myyti wordis, and maad faire to biseche.
13 who? to reveal: uncover face: surface clothing his in/on/with double bridle his who? to come (in): come
Who schal schewe the face of his clothing, and who schal entre in to the myddis of his mouth?
14 door face his who? to open around tooth his terror
Who schal opene the yatis of his cheer? ferdfulnesse is bi the cumpas of hise teeth.
15 pride channel shield to shut signet narrow
His bodi is as yotun scheldys of bras, and ioyned togidere with scalis ouerleiynge hem silf.
16 one in/on/with one to approach: approach and spirit: breath not to come (in): come between them
Oon is ioyned to another; and sotheli brething goith not thorouy tho.
17 man: anyone in/on/with brother: compatriot his to cleave to capture and not to separate
Oon schal cleue to anothir, and tho holdynge hem silf schulen not be departid.
18 sneezing his to shine light and eye his like/as eyelid dawn
His fnesynge is as schynynge of fier, and hise iyen ben as iyelidis of the morewtid.
19 from lip his torch to go: went spark fire to escape
Laumpis comen forth of his mouth, as trees of fier, that ben kyndlid.
20 from nostril his to come out: come smoke like/as pot to breathe and bulrush
Smoke cometh forth of hise nosethirlis, as of a pot set on the fier `and boilynge.
21 soul: life his coal to kindle and flame from lip his to come out: come
His breeth makith colis to brenne, and flawme goith out of his mouth.
22 in/on/with neck his to lodge strength and to/for face: before his to dance dismay
Strengthe schal dwelle in his necke, and nedynesse schal go bifor his face.
23 refuse flesh his to cleave to pour: cast metal upon him not to shake
The membris of hise fleischis ben cleuynge togidere to hem silf; God schal sende floodis ayens hym, and tho schulen not be borun to an other place.
24 heart his to pour: firm like stone and to pour: firm like/as millstone lower
His herte schal be maad hard as a stoon; and it schal be streyned togidere as the anefeld of a smith.
25 from elevation his to dread god from breaking to sin
Whanne he schal be takun awei, aungels schulen drede; and thei aferd schulen be purgid.
26 to overtake him sword without to arise: establish spear missile and lance
Whanne swerd takith hym, it may not stonde, nethir spere, nether haburioun.
27 to devise: think to/for straw iron to/for tree: wood rottenness bronze
For he schal arette irun as chaffis, and bras as rotun tre.
28 not to flee him son: type of bow to/for stubble to overturn to/for him stone sling
A man archere schal not dryue hym awei; stoonys of a slynge ben turned in to stobil to hym.
29 like/as stubble to devise: think club and to laugh to/for quaking javelin
He schal arette an hamer as stobil; and he schal scorne a florischynge spere.
30 underneath: under him point earthenware to spread sharp upon mud
The beemys of the sunne schulen be vndur hym; and he schal strewe to hym silf gold as cley.
31 to boil like/as pot depth sea to set: make like/as ointment pot/seasoning
He schal make the depe se to buyle as a pot; and he schal putte, as whanne oynementis buylen.
32 after him to light path to devise: think abyss to/for greyheaded
A path schal schyne aftir hym; he schal gesse the greet occian as wexynge eld.
33 nothing upon dust likeness his [the] to make to/for without terror
No power is on erthe, that schal be comparisound to hym; which is maad, that he schulde drede noon.
34 [obj] all high to see: see he/she/it king upon all son: child pride
He seeth al hiy thing; he is kyng ouer alle the sones of pride.
