NET Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? | 1"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord? |
2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? | 2"Can you put a rope in his nose Or pierce his jaw with a hook? |
3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? | 3"Will he make many supplications to you, Or will he speak to you soft words? |
4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? | 4"Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him for a servant forever? |
5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? | 5"Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you bind him for your maidens? |
6Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? | 6"Will the traders bargain over him? Will they divide him among the merchants? |
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? | 7"Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears? |
8If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again! | 8"Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle; you will not do it again! |
9See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. | 9"Behold, your expectation is false; Will you be laid low even at the sight of him? |
10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? | 10"No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him; Who then is he that can stand before Me? |
11(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!) | 11"Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Whatever 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. | 12"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Or his mighty strength, or his orderly frame. |
13Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? | 13"Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can come within his double mail? |
14Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome. | 14"Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth there is terror. |
15Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; | 15"His strong scales are his pride, Shut up as with a tight seal. |
16each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them. | 16"One 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. | 17"They are joined one to another; They clasp each other and cannot be separated. |
18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn. | 18"His sneezes flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. |
19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth! | 19"Out of his mouth go burning torches; Sparks of fire leap forth. |
20Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes. | 20"Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth As from a boiling pot and burning rushes. |
21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth. | 21"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth. |
22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it. | 22"In his neck lodges strength, And dismay leaps before him. |
23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable. | 23"The folds of his flesh are joined together, Firm on him and immovable. |
24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. | 24"His heart is as hard as a stone, Even as hard as a lower millstone. |
25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw. | 25"When he raises himself up, the mighty fear; Because of the crashing they are bewildered. |
26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart. | 26"The sword that reaches him cannot avail, Nor the spear, the dart or the javelin. |
27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. | 27"He regards iron as straw, Bronze as rotten wood. |
28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it. | 28"The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones are turned into stubble for him. |
29A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. | 29"Clubs are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rattling of the javelin. |
30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. | 30"His underparts are like sharp potsherds; He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire. |
31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, | 31"He makes the depths boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a jar of ointment. |
32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair. | 32"Behind him he makes a wake to shine; One would think the deep to be gray-haired. |
33The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear. | 33"Nothing on earth is like him, One made without fear. |
34It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud." | 34"He looks on everything that is high; He is king over all the sons of pride." |
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