Job 41
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1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? 1 “Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?
2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? 2Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike?
3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? 3Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?
4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? 4Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life?
5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? 5Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?
6Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? 6Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops?
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? 7Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon?
8If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again! 8If you lay a hand on it, you will certainly remember the battle that follows. You won’t try that again!
9See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. 9 No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down.
10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? 10And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to me?
11(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!) 11Who has given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine.
12I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. 12“I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form.
13Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? 13Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?
14Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome. 14Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!
15Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; 15The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together.
16each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them. 16They are so close together that no air can get between them.
17They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated. 17Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated.
18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn. 18“When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn.
19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth! 19Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out.
20Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes. 20Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.
21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth. 21Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.
22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it. 22“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck strikes terror wherever it goes.
23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable. 23Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated.
24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. 24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone.
25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw. 25When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror.
26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart. 26No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or javelin.
27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. 27Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood.
28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it. 28Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.
29A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. 29Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.
30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. 30Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.
31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, 31“Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment.
32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair. 32The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white.
33The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear. 33Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless.
34It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud." 34Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts.”
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