Job 41 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 “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 Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp? 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 address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant? 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 And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou 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 And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child? 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 And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him? 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 And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither shall they carry his head in fishing-vessels. 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 But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him once , remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more. 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 Hast thou not seen him? and hast thou not wondered at the things said 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 Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists 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 Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole world under heaven 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 will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist. “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 will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate? 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 will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his 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 His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his skin as a smyrite stone. 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 part cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot 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 They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be 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 At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star. 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 proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad. 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 nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals. 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 is as live coals, and a flame goes 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 And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs. In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
23 The flesh also of his body is joined together: if one pours violence upon him, he shall not 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 His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil. His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone. Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
25 And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth. 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 If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, either with the spear or the breast-plate. 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 For he considers iron as chaff, and brass 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 bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass. 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 Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand. 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 His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense quantity of clay. 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 deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards 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 and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range. 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 nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels. On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.
34 He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters. 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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