| Berean Study Bible | New International Version |
| 1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope? | 1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope? |
| 2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? | 2Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook? |
| 3Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly? | 3Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words? |
| 4Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life? | 4Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life? |
| 5Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens? | 5Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house? |
| 6Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants? | 6Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? |
| 7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? | 7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? |
| 8If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it! | 8If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again! |
| 9Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming? | 9Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering. |
| 10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me? | 10No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me? |
| 11Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine. | 11Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me. |
| 12I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form. | 12"I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and its graceful form. |
| 13Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle? | 13Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor? |
| 14Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth? | 14Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth? |
| 15His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together. | 15Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together; |
| 16One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them. | 16each is so close to the next that no air can pass between. |
| 17They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated. | 17They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted. |
| 18His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn. | 18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn. |
| 19Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth! | 19Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. |
| 20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. | 20Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. |
| 21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth. | 21Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth. |
| 22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him. | 22Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it. |
| 23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable. | 23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable. |
| 24His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone! | 24Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. |
| 25When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing. | 25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing. |
| 26The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow. | 26The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin. |
| 27He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. | 27Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood. |
| 28No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him. | 28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it. |
| 29A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance. | 29A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. |
| 30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge. | 30Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. |
| 31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment. | 31It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment. |
| 32He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair! | 32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair. |
| 33Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear! | 33Nothing on earth is its equal-- a creature without fear. |
| 34He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.” | 34It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud." |
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