“His friends shall cut him in pieces; the merchants shall divide him. 33. This Leviathan is cut in pieces, as often as his members are severed from him by the sword of the Divine Word. For when wicked men hear the word of truth, and, smitten with holy fear, suspend their imitation of the ancient enemy, he, from whom th…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXIII
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6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
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4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
— Job 41:6 —
7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.