Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
-- Job, 41 (Check longer quotation)
Hitherto I have set forth the nature of man, whose pride and other passions have compelled him to submit himself to government; together with the great power of his governor, whom I compared to LEVIATHAN, taking that comparison out of the two last verses of the one-and-fortieth of Job; where God, having set forth the great power of Leviathan, calleth him king of the proud.
-- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1650) (Check longer quotation)
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a
cord which thou lettest down? ...
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? ...
Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. ...
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. ...
The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. ...
Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
-- Job, 41
This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man, in such manner as if every man should say to every man: I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition; that thou give up, thy right to him, and authorise all his actions in like manner. This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a COMMONWEALTH; in Latin, CIVITAS. This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal god to which we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the Commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power and strength conferred on him that, by terror thereof, he is enabled to form the wills of them all, to peace at home, and mutual aid against their enemies abroad. And in him consisteth the essence of the Commonwealth. ...
And he that carryeth this person is called sovereign, and said to have sovereign power; and every one besides, his subject. ...
Hitherto I have set forth the nature of man, whose pride and other passions have compelled him to submit himself to government; together with the great power of his governor, whom I compared to LEVIATHAN, taking that comparison out of the two last verses of the one-and-fortieth of Job; where God, having set forth the great power of Leviathan, calleth him king of the proud.
-- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1650)