| International Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1 "Can you draw Leviathan out of the water with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope? | 1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? |
| 2Can you attach a bridle to his snout, or pierce his jaw with a hook? | 2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? |
| 3Will he make many supplications to you, or will he beg you for mercy? | 3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? |
| 4Will he try to make a deal with you, so that you may take him in servitude forever? | 4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? |
| 5"Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls? | 5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? |
| 6Will your business be able to buy him, Will you divide him among your merchant friends? | 6Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? |
| 7Will you fill his flesh with harpoons, or his head with lances? | 7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? |
| 8Lay your hand on him, and you'll remember the struggle. You'll never do that again! | 8If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again! |
| 9"Look! Anyone's hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him. | 9See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. |
| 10No one is fierce enough to dare to arouse him. "Who, then, can stand in my presence and face me? | 10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? |
| 11Who can take me to court and be reconciled to me? All of heaven is mine. | 11(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!) |
| 12"I won't be silent concerning his limbs, his mighty strength, and orderly frame. | 12I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. |
| 13Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can approach him with a bridle? | 13Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? |
| 14Who dares to open his mouth, since it is ringed with his terrible teeth! | 14Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome. |
| 15His protective scales are his pride, they lie sealed tightly together. | 15Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; |
| 16Each one is so close to the other that not even air comes in between them. | 16each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them. |
| 17Each is attached to the other, grasping each other so they cannot be separated. | 17They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated. |
| 18"His snorting releases flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of the dawn. | 18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn. |
| 19Flames blaze from his mouth; streams of sparking fire fly out. | 19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth! |
| 20Smoke billows from his nostrils; like a boiling pot or burning reeds. | 20Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes. |
| 21His breath can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth. | 21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth. |
| 22"His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified. | 22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it. |
| 23There is no flaw in his body's armor; it is firmly fixed on him and unbreachable. | 23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable. |
| 24His heart is as strong as stone, it is as hard as a lower millstone. | 24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. |
| 25When he rears up, the mighty are terrified; they are bewildered as he thrashes about. | 25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw. |
| 26"Thrusting at him with a sword won't be effective, nor will spears, darts, or javelins. | 26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart. |
| 27He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree. | 27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. |
| 28Arrows won't make him flee; stones from a sling are only pebbles to him. | 28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it. |
| 29Clubs are like twigs; he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin. | 29A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. |
| 30"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain. | 30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. |
| 31He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment. | 31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, |
| 32The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair. | 32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair. |
| 33"There's nothing like him on earth; he was created without the ability to fear. | 33The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear. |
| 34He looks down on everything that is high; he rules over every kind of pride." | 34It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud." |
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