New Living Translation

King James Bible

1 “Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?

1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

2Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike?

2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

3Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?

3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

4Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life?

4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

5Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?

5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

6Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops?

6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

7Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon?

7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

8If you lay a hand on it, you will certainly remember the battle that follows. You won’t try that again!

8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

9 No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down.

9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

10And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to me?

10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

11Who has given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine.

11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

12“I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form.

12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

13Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?

13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

14Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!

14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

15The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together.

15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

16They are so close together that no air can get between them.

16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

17Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated.

17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

18“When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn.

18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

19Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out.

19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

20Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.

20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

21Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.

21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

22“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck strikes terror wherever it goes.

22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

23Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated.

23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone.

24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

25When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror.

25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

26No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or javelin.

26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

27Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood.

27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

28Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.

28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

29Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.

29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

30Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.

30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

31“Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment.

31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

32The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white.

32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

33Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless.

33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

34Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts.”

34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

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