Job 41:5-34 ▼

5 <V 40:24>Will you play with him as with a bird, or tether him for your handmaids?

6 <V 40:25>Will your friends cut him into pieces, will dealers distribute him?

7 <V 40:26>Will you fill up bags with his hide, and let his head be used as a home for fishes?

8 <V 40:27>Place your hand upon him; remember the battle and speak no more.

9 <V 40:28>Behold, his hope will fail him, and in the sight of all, he will be thrown down.

10 <V 41:1>I will not rouse him, as the cruel would do, for who is able to withstand my countenance?

11 <V 41:2>Who has given to me beforehand, so that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.

12 <V 41:3>I will not spare him, nor his powerful words and counterfeit attempts at supplication.

13 <V 41:4>Who can reveal the beauty of his garment? And who can enter the middle of his mouth?

14 <V 41:5>Who can open the doors of his face? I gave fear to the circle of his teeth.

15 <V 41:6>His body is like shields fused together, like dense scales pressed over one another.

16 <V 41:7>One is joined to another, and not even air can pass between them.

17 <V 41:8>They adhere to one another, and they hold themselves in place and will not be separated.

18 <V 41:9>His sneezing has the brilliance of fire, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

19 <V 41:10>Lamps proceed from his mouth, like torches of fire burning brightly.

20 <V 41:11>Smoke passes out of his nostrils, like a pot that is heated and boiling.

21 <V 41:12>His breath causes coal to burn, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

22 <V 41:13>Strength dwells in his neck, and destitution goes before his presence.

23 <V 41:14>The parts of his body work in harmony together. He will send lightning bolts against him, and they will not be carried to another place.

24 <V 41:15>His heart will be as hard as a stone and as dense as a blacksmith’s anvil.

25 <V 41:16>When he will be raised up, the angels will be afraid, and, because they are terrified, they will purify themselves.

26 <V 41:17>When a sword catches up with him, it will not be able to settle in, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.

27 <V 41:18>For he will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood.

28 <V 41:19>The archer will not cause him to flee; the stones of the sling have been turned into stubble for him.

29 <V 41:20>He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear.

30 <V 41:21>The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay.

31 <V 41:22>He will make the depths of the sea boil like a pot, and he will set it to bubble just as ointments do.

32 <V 41:23>A path will shine after him; he will esteem the abyss as if it were weakening with age.

33 <V 41:24>There is no power on the earth that is being compared to him, who has been made so that he fears no one.

34 <V 41:25>He sees every prominent thing; he is king over all the sons of arrogance.