Job 41
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1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? 1Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie his tongue down with a rope?
2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? 2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? 3Will he beg you for mercy or speak softly to you?
4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? 4Will he make a covenant with you so that you can take him as a slave forever?
5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? 5Can you play with him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
6Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? 6Will traders bargain for him or divide him among the merchants?
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? 7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again! 8Lay a hand on him. You will remember the battle and never repeat it!
9See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. 9Any hope of capturing him proves false. Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?
10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? 10No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan; who then can stand against Me?
11(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!) 11Who confronted Me, that I should repay him? Everything under heaven belongs to Me.
12I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. 12I cannot be silent about his limbs, his power, and his graceful proportions.
13Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? 13Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?
14Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome. 14Who can open his jaws, surrounded by those terrifying teeth?
15Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; 15His pride is in his rows of scales, closely sealed together.
16each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them. 16One scale is so close to another that no air can pass between them.
17They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated. 17They are joined to one another, so closely connected they cannot be separated.
18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn. 18His snorting flashes with light, while his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth! 19Flaming torches shoot from his mouth; fiery sparks fly out!
20Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes. 20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.
21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth. 21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth.
22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it. 22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances before him.
23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable. 23The folds of his flesh are joined together, solid as metal and immovable.
24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. 24His heart is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw. 25When Leviathan rises, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw because of his thrashing.
26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart. 26The sword that reaches him will have no effect, nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.
27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. 27He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it. 28No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him.
29A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. 29A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.
30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. 30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.
31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, 31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like an ointment jar.
32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair. 32He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had gray hair!
33The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear. 33He has no equal on earth-- a creature devoid of fear!
34It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud." 34He surveys everything that is haughty; he is king over all the proud beasts.
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