Job 41 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Wilt thou draw out the crocodile with a hook and with a cord wilt thou press down his tongue? “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 Wilt thou put a rope in his nose? and wilt thou hollow out 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 multiply supplications to thee? will he speak soft things to thee? 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 cut out a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant 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 Wilt thou play with him as a bird? and wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? 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 companions give a feast upon him? shall they divide him between the Canaanites? 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 Wilt thou fill his skin with pointed weapons? 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 Put thy hand upon him; remember the battle, thou shalt 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, his hope was false: shall he not be cast down at his sight? 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 fierce that he will rouse him up: and who is he will 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 anticipated me, and I will recompense? under all the heavens it is 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 for him, and the word of powers and the beauty of his preparation. “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 uncovered the face of his clothing? who shall come with 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 opened the doors of his face? his teeth a terror round about. 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 Pride of strong shields shut up with a seal of straitness. 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 shall touch upon another, and the wind shall not 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 adhere each in his brotherhood, they will hold together, and they will not 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 His sneezings a light will shine, and his eyes as the eyelashes of the dawning of day. 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 From his mouth flaming torches shall go forth; sparks of fire will escape. 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 smoke will come forth as a blown pot, and a caldron. 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 soul will kindle coals, and a flame will go 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 In his neck will lodge strength, and terror will leap before him. In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
23 The flaps of his flesh adhered: it will press upon him; it will 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 will press as a stone; and it will press as the under 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 His lifting up, the mighty will be stirred up: from breaking they shall purify themselves. 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 reaching him, shall not be raised up: the spear, the dart, and the coat of mail. 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 will reckon iron for straw, and brass for wood of rottenness. 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 shall not cause him to flee: sling-stones were turned to him for stubble. 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 The bludgeon was reckoned to him for stubble: and he will laugh at the shaking of the 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 Sharpnesses of the potsherd under him: he will spread a trench 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 will cause the deep to boil as a pot: he will set the sea as 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 will cause a beaten path to shine after him: the deep will be reckoned 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 None upon the dust being like him; he made him without fear. On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.
34 He will see every thing high: he is king over all the 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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