Job 41 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 |Can you pull Leviathan out [of the water] with a fishhook or tie its tongue down 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 ring through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook? 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 it plead with you for mercy or speak tenderly to you? 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 it make an agreement with you so that you can take it as your permanent slave? 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 Can you play with it like a bird or keep it on a leash for your girls? 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 bargain over it and divide it 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 its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? 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 Lay your hand on it. Think of the struggle! Don't do it again! 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 Certainly, any hope [of defeating it] is a false hope. Doesn't the sight of it overwhelm you? 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 No one is brave enough to provoke Leviathan. Then who can stand in front of 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 Who can confront me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven belongs to 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 be silent about Leviathan's limbs, its strength, or its graceful 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 skin its hide? Who can approach it with a harness? 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 Who can open its closed mouth? Its teeth are surrounded by 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 Its back has rows of scales that are tightly 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 One is so close to the other that there is no space 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 Each is joined to the other. They are locked together and inseparable. 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 When Leviathan sneezes, it gives out a flash of light. Its eyes are like the first rays 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 Flames shoot from its mouth. Sparks of fire fly from it. Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth. Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke comes from its nostrils like a boiling pot heated over brushwood. 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 Its breath sets coals on fire, and a flame pours from its 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 Strength resides in its neck, and power dances in front of it. In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
23 The folds of its flesh stick to each other. They are solid and cannot be moved. 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 Its chest is solid like a rock, solid like a 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 |The mighty are afraid when Leviathan rises. Broken down, they draw back. 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 A sword may strike it but not pierce it. Neither will a spear, lance, or dart. 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 It considers iron to be like straw and bronze to be like rotten wood. He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
28 An arrow won't make it run away. Stones from a sling turn to dust against it. 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 It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin. 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 Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery. It stretches out like a threshing sledge on 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 It makes the deep sea boil like a pot. It stirs up the ocean like a boiling kettle. 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 It leaves a shining path behind it so that the sea appears to have silvery hair. 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 Nothing on land can compare to it. It was made fearless. On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.
34 It looks down on all high things. It is king of everyone who is arrogant.| 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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