King James Bible

New Living Translation

1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

1 “Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?

2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

2Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike?

3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

3Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?

4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

4Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life?

5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

5Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?

6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

6Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops?

7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

7Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon?

8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

8If you lay a hand on it, you will certainly remember the battle that follows. You won’t try that again!

9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

9 No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down.

10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

10And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to me?

11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

11Who has given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine.

12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

12“I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form.

13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

13Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?

14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

14Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!

15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

15The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together.

16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

16They are so close together that no air can get between them.

17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

17Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated.

18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

18“When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn.

19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

19Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out.

20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

20Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.

21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

21Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.

22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

22“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck strikes terror wherever it goes.

23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

23Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated.

24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone.

25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

25When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror.

26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

26No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or javelin.

27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

27Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood.

28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

28Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.

29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

29Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.

30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

30Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.

31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

31“Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment.

32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

32The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white.

33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

33Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless.

34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

34Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts.”

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