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the mighty are afraid: by reason of 
breaking they purify themselves. 
26 The sword of him that layeth 
at him cannot hold; the spear, the 
dart, nor the habergeon. 
27 He esteemeth iron as straw, 
and brass as rotten wood. 
28 The arrow cannot make him 
flee; sling-stones are turned with 
him into stubble. 
29 Darts are counted as stubble: 
he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. 
30 Sharp stones are under him: 
he spreadeth sharp pointed things 
upon the mire. 
31 He maketh the deep to boil like 
a pot; he maketh the sea like a pot 
of ointment. 
32 He maketh a path to shine af¬ 
ter him; one would think the deep 
to be hoary. 
33 Upon earth there is not his 
like, who is made without fear. 
34 He beholdeth all high things: 
he is a king over all the children of 
pride. 
And, in the first place, what is the definition of the 
Hebrew word leviathan ? If you look in Gesenius’s 
Hebrew and English Lexicon, you will find it to be 
as follows: — “Leviathan. An animal wreathed , 
gathering itself in folds.” Here, I presume, the 
commentators will say, with their usual ingenuity in 
such cases, that perhaps this animal is of the sheep 
kind, and must therefore be gathered in folds. But 
alas for such sheepish commentators ! the next defini¬ 
tion would destroy their theory at once : — “ Levia¬ 
than. A Serpent , especially a large one.” So 
Isaiah xxvii. 1 : “In that day the Lord, with his 
sore, and great, and strong sword, shall punish levia¬ 
than the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked 
serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the 
sea.” 
It may be said that this verse refers to the 20th 
chapter, 1st verse, (which see.) If so, then this ser¬ 
pent of the sea is indeed (what I have long suspected 
might be the fact) the devil. But let us go on with 
our definition. 
“ 2. Spec. The crocodile, Job xli. 25, &c. 3. A 
sea-monster, Ps. civ. 26.” I insert this passage also. 
23 Man goeth forth unto his work, 
and to his labour, until the evening. 
24 O Lord, how manifold are thy 
works! in wisdom hast thou made 
them all; the earth is full of thy 
riches; 
25 So is this great and wide sea, 
wherein are things creeping innu¬ 
merable, both small and great beasts. 
26 There go the ships; there is 
that leviathan, whom thou hast made 
to play therein. 
27 These wait all upon thee, that 
thou mayst give them their meat in 
due season. 
28 That thou givest them they 
gather : thou openest thy hand, they 
are filled with good. 
