Job 41 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 “ Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, and press down his tongue with a rope? “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord in his nose, and with a hook pierce his jaw? Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3 Will he multiply to you supplications? Indeed, will he speak to you softly? Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?
4 Will he cut a covenant with you, to take him as a slave forever? Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?
5 Will you play with him like a bird, and leash him for your maidens? Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
6 Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him among the merchants? Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons, or his head with spears of fishing? Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
8 Put your hands on him; may you remember the battle, and not add. Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again! If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
9 Behold, the hope of him is false. One is even cast down at the sight of him. Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him. Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.
10 None is so fierce that he would rouse him; and who is he who will stand before my face? No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?
11 Who has brought before Me that I should repay him? Under all the heavens it is unto Me. Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
12 I will not keep silent about his limbs, and the matter of his strength and the grace of his form. “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame. “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs, its strength and its graceful form.
13 Who can uncover the face of his clothing? Who can enter into the double of his bridle? Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle? Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor?
14 The doors of his face, who can open them? All around his teeth are terror. Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?
15 His rows of shields are his pride, shut up tight with a seal. His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal. Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
16 One by one they draw near, and air cannot come between them. One is so near to another that no air can come between them. each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
17 They are joined a man to his brother; they clasp together and cannot be separated. They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated. They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
18 His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 From his mouth torches go forth; sparks of fire leap out. Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth. Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20 From his nostrils smoke comes forth, boiling like a pot and a reed. Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 His breath will kindle the coals, and a flame goes forth from his mouth. His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth. Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.
22 In his neck lodges strength, and before him terror dances. In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
23 The folds of his flesh are joined together, c on him, and it annot be shaken. The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable. The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24 His heart is as firm as a stone, even as firm as a lower millstone. His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone. Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
25 From his rising up the mighty are afraid; before his thrashing they cleanse themselves from sin. When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves. When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.
26 The sword reaching him shall not stand—not spear, dart, or lance. Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin. The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
27 He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
28 The son of the bow cannot make him flee; the stones of the sling are turned over before him like stubble. The arrow cannot make him flee; for him, sling stones are turned to stubble. Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.
29 A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the rattle of a lance. Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins. A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30 Beneath him are points of a shard; he spreads out like a threshing sledge upon the mud. His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire. Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like an ointment pot. He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 Behind him he makes a path shine; one would think the deep were white-haired. Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired. It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.
33 There is nothing on earth like him, the one made devoid of fear. On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.
34 He beholds every high thing; he is king over all the sons of pride.” He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.” It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud.”
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