Holy Scripture
Job 41:21
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“His breath kindleth coals. And a flame goeth out of his mouth. 67. For what does He call 'coals,' but the minds of reprobate men, kindled with earthly desires. For they are on fire when they seek after any temporal object; doubtless because their longings, which suffer not their mind to be quiet and whole ['integrum']…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
21Mauls are counted as stubble; And he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
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19For he considers iron as chaff, And brass as rotten wood.
20The bow of brass shall not wound him, He deems a slinger as grass.
— Job 41:21 —
22His lair is formed of sharp points; And all the gold of the sea under him is as an immense quantity of clay.
23He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; And he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,