Job 41
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1 “Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike?2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?3Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
4Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life?4Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
5Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?5Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
6Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops?6Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
7Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon?7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8If you lay a hand on it, you will certainly remember the battle that follows. You won’t try that again!8If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
9 No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down.9Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
10And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to me?10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
11Who has given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine.11Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
12“I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form.12I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
13Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?13Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
14Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!14Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
15The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together.15His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
16They are so close together that no air can get between them.16One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
17Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated.17They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
18“When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn.18His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out.19Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
20Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
22“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck strikes terror wherever it goes.22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
23Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated.23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone.24His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
25When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror.25When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
26No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or javelin.26The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
27Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood.27He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
28Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.28No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
29Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.29A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
30Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
31“Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment.31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
32The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white.32He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
33Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless.33Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!
34Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts.”34He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”
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