Job 41

1 t "Can you draw out Leviathant with a fishhook
or press down his tongue with a cord?
2  Can you put a rope in his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3  Will he make many pleas to you?
Will he speak to you soft words?
4  Will he make a covenant with you
to take him for your servant forever?
5  Will you play with him as with a bird,
or will you put him on a leash for your girls?
6  Will traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7  Can you fill his skin with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?
8  Lay your hands on him;
remember the battle—you will not do it again!
9 t Behold, the hope of a man is false;
he is laid low even at the sight of him.
10  No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.
Who then is he who can stand before me?
11  Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

12  "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.
13  Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who would come near him with a bridle?
14  Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth is terror.
15  His back is made oft rows of shields,
shut up closely as with a seal.
16  One is so near to another
that no air can come between them.
17  They are joined one to another;
they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
18  His sneezings flash forth light,
and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
19  Out of his mouth go flaming torches;
sparks of fire leap forth.
20  Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke,
as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
21  His breath kindles coals,
and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
22  In his neck abides strength,
and terror dances before him.
23  The folds of his flesh stick together,
firmly cast on him and immovable.
24  His heart is hard as a stone,
hard as the lower millstone.
25  When he raises himself up the mightyt are afraid;
at the crashing they are beside themselves.
26  Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,
nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27  He counts iron as straw,
and bronze as rotten wood.
28  The arrow cannot make him flee;
for him sling stones are turned to stubble.
29  Clubs are counted as stubble;
he laughs at the rattle of javelins.
30  His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
31  He makes the deep boil like a pot;
he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32  Behind him he leaves a shining wake;
one would think the deep to be white-haired.
33  On earth there is not his like,
a creature without fear.
34  He sees everything that is high;
he is king over all the sons of pride."

Job 41

The Description of Leviathan

1 s “Can you pull int Leviathan with a hook,
and tie downt its tongue with a rope?

2 Can you put a cord through its nose,
or pierce its jaw with a hook?

3 Will it make numerous supplications to you,t
will it speak to you with tender words?t

4 Will it make a pactt with you,
so you could take itt as your slave for life?

5 Can you playt with it, like a bird,
or tie it on a leasht for your girls?

6 Will partnerst bargaint for it?
Will they divide it upt among the merchants?

7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?

8 If you lay your hand on it,
you will remembert the fight,
and you will never do it again!

9 ssssssss See, his expectation is wrong,t
he is laid low even at the sight of it.t

10 Is it not fierces when it is awakened?
Who is he, then, who can stand before it?s

11 (Who has confrontedt me that I should repay?s
Everything under heaven belongs to me!)t

12 I will not keep silent about its limbs,
and the extent of its might,
and the grace of its arrangement.t

13 Who can uncover its outer covering?t
Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor?s

14 Who can open the doors of its mouth?t
Its teeth all around are fearsome.

15 Its backs has rows of shields,
shut up closelyt together as with a seal;

16 each one is so close to the nextt
that no air can come between them.

17 They lock tightly together, one to the next;t
they cling together and cannot be separated.

18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the red glowt of dawn.

19 Out of its mouth go flames,s
sparks of fire shoot forth!

20 Smoke streams from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burningt rushes.

21 Its breath sets coals ablaze
and a flame shoots from its mouth.

22 Strength lodges in its neck,
and despairt runs before it.

23 The foldst of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm on it, immovable.t

24 Its heartt is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.

25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified,
at its thrashing about they withdraw.s

26 Whoever strikes it with a swordt
will have no effect,t
nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

27 It regards iron as straw
and bronze as rotten wood.

28 Arrowst do not make it flee;
slingstones become like chaff to it.

29 A club is countedt as a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

30 Its underpartst are the sharp points of potsherds,
it leaves its mark in the mud
like a threshing sledge.t

31 It makes the deep boil like a cauldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment,s

32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

33 The likes of it is not on earth,
a creaturet without fear.

34 It looks on every haughty being;
it is king over all that are proud.”t