Job 41
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1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? 1 "Can you draw Leviathan out of the water with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? 2Can you attach a bridle to his snout, or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? 3Will he make many supplications to you, or will he beg you for mercy?
4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? 4Will he try to make a deal with you, so that you may take him in servitude forever?
5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? 5"Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls?
6Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? 6Will your business be able to buy him, Will you divide him among your merchant friends?
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? 7Will you fill his flesh with harpoons, or his head with lances?
8If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again! 8Lay your hand on him, and you'll remember the struggle. You'll never do that again!
9See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. 9"Look! Anyone's hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him.
10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? 10No one is fierce enough to dare to arouse him. "Who, then, can stand in my presence and face me?
11(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!) 11Who can take me to court and be reconciled to me? All of heaven is mine.
12I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. 12"I won't be silent concerning his limbs, his mighty strength, and orderly frame.
13Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? 13Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can approach him with a bridle?
14Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome. 14Who dares to open his mouth, since it is ringed with his terrible teeth!
15Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; 15His protective scales are his pride, they lie sealed tightly together.
16each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them. 16Each one is so close to the other that not even air comes in between them.
17They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated. 17Each is attached to the other, grasping each other so they cannot be separated.
18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn. 18"His snorting releases flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of the dawn.
19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth! 19Flames blaze from his mouth; streams of sparking fire fly out.
20Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes. 20Smoke billows from his nostrils; like a boiling pot or burning reeds.
21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth. 21His breath can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth.
22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it. 22"His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified.
23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable. 23There is no flaw in his body's armor; it is firmly fixed on him and unbreachable.
24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. 24His heart is as strong as stone, it is as hard as a lower millstone.
25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw. 25When he rears up, the mighty are terrified; they are bewildered as he thrashes about.
26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart. 26"Thrusting at him with a sword won't be effective, nor will spears, darts, or javelins.
27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. 27He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree.
28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it. 28Arrows won't make him flee; stones from a sling are only pebbles to him.
29A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. 29Clubs are like twigs; he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin.
30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. 30"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain.
31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, 31He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.
32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair. 32The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair.
33The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear. 33"There's nothing like him on earth; he was created without the ability to fear.
34It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud." 34He looks down on everything that is high; he rules over every kind of pride."
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