Job 41 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 “Do you draw leviathan with a hook? And do you let 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 Do you put a reed in his nose? And pierce 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 Does he multiply supplications to you? Does he speak tender things 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 Does he make a covenant with you? Do you take him for a perpetual servant? 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 Do you play with him as a bird? And do you bind him 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 (Companions feast on him, || 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 Do you fill his skin with barbed irons? And his head with fish-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 Place your hand on him, || Remember the battle—do 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 found a liar, || Also, is one not cast down at his appearance? 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 so fierce that he awakes him, || And who [is] he [who] stations himself 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 brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [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 I do not keep silent concerning his parts, || And the matter of might, || And the grace of his arrangement. “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 has uncovered the face of his clothing? Who enters within his 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 Who has opened the doors of his face? Around his teeth [are] terrible. 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 A pride—strong ones of shields, || Shut up—a close 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 They draw near to one another, || And air does not enter 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 adhere to one another, || They stick together and are not 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 cause light to shine, || And his eyes [are] as 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 Flames go out of his mouth, sparks of fire escape. Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth. Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke goes forth out of his nostrils, || As a blown pot and reeds. 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 sets coals on fire, || 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 Strength lodges in his neck, || And grief exults before him. In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
23 The flakes of his flesh have adhered—Firm on him—it is not 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 His heart [is] firm as a stone, || Indeed, firm as the lower piece. 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 at his rising, || From his breakings they keep themselves free. 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 of his overtaker does not stand, || Spear, dart, and breastplate. 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 reckons iron as straw, 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 does not cause him to flee, || Stones of the sling are turned into stubble by 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 Darts have been reckoned as stubble, || And he laughs at the shaking of a 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 Sharp points of clay [are] under him, || He spreads gold on the mire. 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 causes the deep to boil as a pot, || He makes the sea as a pot of ointment. 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 He causes a path to shine after him, || One thinks the deep to be hoary. 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 not on the earth his like, || That is made without terror. On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.
34 He sees every high thing, || He [is] king over all 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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