Job 41 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Can you lead Leviathan about with a hook, or tie 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 ring into his nose, or pierce through his cheek with a gaff? 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 then plead with you, time after time, or address you with tender words? 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 that you may have 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 Can you play with him, as with a bird? Can you tie him up for your little 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 the traders bargain for him? Will the merchants divide him up? 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 hide with barbs, or 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 Once you but lay a hand upon him, no need to recall any other conflict! 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 Whoever might vainly hope to do so need only see him to be overthrown. 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 fierce enough to arouse him; who then dares 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 Whoever has assailed me, I will pay back— Everything under the heavens 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 need hardly mention his limbs, his strength, and the fitness of his equipment. “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 strip off his outer garment, or penetrate his double armor? 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 force open the doors of his face, close to his terrible teeth? 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 Rows of scales are on his back, tightly sealed together; 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 are fitted so close to each other that no air can 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 So joined to one another that they hold fast and cannot be parted. 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 he sneezes, light flashes forth; 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 Out of his mouth go forth torches; sparks of fire leap forth. 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 comes smoke as from a seething pot or bowl. 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 afire; a flame comes 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 abides in his neck, and power leaps before him. 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 stick together, it is cast over him and immovable. 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 cast as hard as stone; cast as the 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 When he rises up, the gods are afraid; when he crashes down, they fall 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 Should a sword reach him, it will not avail; nor will spear, dart, or javelin. 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 chaff, 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 No arrow will put him to flight; slingstones used against him are but straw. 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 Clubs he regards as straw; he laughs at the crash of the spear. 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 Under him are sharp pottery fragments, spreading a threshing sledge upon 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 makes the depths boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a perfume bottle. 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 leaves a shining path; you would think the deep had white 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 Upon the earth there is none like him, he 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 He looks over all who are haughty, he is king over all proud beasts. 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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