Job 41 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 (40:20) Canst thou drawe out Liuiathan with an hooke, and with a line which thou shalt cast downe vnto his tongue? “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 (40:21) Canst thou cast an hooke into his nose? canst thou perce his iawes with an angle? 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 (40:22) Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire? 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 (40:23) Will hee make a couenant with thee? and wilt thou take him as a seruant for euer? 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 (40:24) Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes? 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 (40:25) Shall the companions baket with him? shal they deuide him among the marchants? 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 (40:26) Canst thou fill the basket with his skinne? or the fishpanier with his head? 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 (40:27) Lay thine hand vpon him: remember the battel, and do no more so. 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 (40:28) Behold, his hope is in vaine: for shal not one perish euen 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 (41:1) None is so fearce that dare stirre him vp. Who is he then that can stand before me? 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 (41:2) Who hath preuented mee that I shoulde make an ende? Al vnder heauen is mine. 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 (41:3) I will not keepe silence concerning his partes, nor his power nor his comely proportion. “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 (41:4) Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double 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 (41:5) Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull ronnd about. 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 (41:6) The maiestie of his scales is like strog shields, and are sure sealed. 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 (41:7) One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene 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 (41:8) One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered. 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 (41:9) His niesings make the light to shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. 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 (41:10) Out of his mouth go lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out. Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth. Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20 (41:11) Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron. 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 (41:12) His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of 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 (41:13) In his necke remayneth strength, & labour is reiected before his face. In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
23 (41:14) The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued. 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 (41:15) His heart is as strong as a stone, & as hard as the nether milstone. His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone. Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
25 (41:16) The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues. 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 (41:17) When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon. 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 (41:18) He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood. He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
28 (41:19) The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him: 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 (41:20) The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare. 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 (41:21) Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre. 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 (41:22) He maketh the depth to boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment. 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 (41:23) He maketh a path to shine after him: one would thinke the depth as an hoare head. 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 (41:24) In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare. On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.
34 (41:25) He beholdeth al hie things: he is a King ouer all the children 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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