Job 41 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 CAN you catch the Leviathan with a hook? Or draw him out with a cord in his mouth? “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 bridle in his mouth? Or bore his jaw with a thorn? 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 make many supplications to you? Or will he speak flattering words 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 he make a covenant with you? Or will you count him as a servant for ever? 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 as with a bird? Or will you keep him as a pet for your children? 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 Shall fishermen gather over him? Shall they divide him among many people? 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 meat? Or bake his head with fire? 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 Try to capture him; such a battle you will have! You will never forget it. 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, Job, you now are set free from your afflictions. So your God will also remove your bitterness. 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 One cannot go far off when Leviathan is stirred up; but who then is able to 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 Who has pre-eminence over me, so that I should surrender? 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 Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. “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 I will not keep silence because of his power, and the might of his sinews. 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 has removed his skin? Who can come near him when the net is lowered? 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 Who can open the doors of his mouth? His teeth are terrible round about. 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 His mouth is tied up, and closely shut, as with a seal. 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 His teeth are so close together that no air can come between them. 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 They are joined one to another, they stick together so that they cannot be separated. 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 His appearance is full of light, and his eyes are like rays of the dawn. Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth. Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. 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 Out of his nostrils goes smoke, like a flame spreading round the sides of a pot. His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth. Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.
22 His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
23 He has great strength in his neck, and fear is to him like dancing. 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 meat is good and fat, and it is nourishing. His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone. Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
25 His heart is never made to quake for fear, but is firm like a stone; yea as hard as flint. 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 Because of the fear of him, the mighty are afraid; 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 And the strong are humbled. He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
28 The wound of the sword is of no effect; the lances of the mighty he removes. 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 He considers iron like straw, and brass like rotten wood. 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 The bow cannot make him flee; he treats slingstones as stubble. 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 laughs at the spear; he is at home in the deep as if he were on the dry land. 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 With his strong body he walks upon the ground. 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 He brings to destruction whatever is proud. On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.
34 He is a king over all things in the deep. 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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