| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1 “Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If you lay a hand on it, you will certainly remember the battle that follows. You won’t try that again! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9 No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to me? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Who has given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They are so close together that no air can get between them. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18“When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck strikes terror wherever it goes. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or javelin. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31“Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts.” |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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