Job 41
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1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? 1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? 2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? 3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? 4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? 5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? 6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? 7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again! 8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
9See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. 9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? 10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
11(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!) 11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. 12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? 13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
14Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome. 14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
15Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; 15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them. 16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated. 17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn. 18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth! 19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes. 20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth. 21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it. 22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable. 23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. 24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw. 25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart. 26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. 27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it. 28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
29A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. 29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. 30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, 31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair. 32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
33The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear. 33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud." 34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
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