Job 41
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1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?1 “Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?
2Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?2Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike?
3Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?3Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?
4Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?4Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life?
5Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?5Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?
6Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?6Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops?
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?7Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon?
8If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!8If you lay a hand on it, you will certainly remember the battle that follows. You won’t try that again!
9Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.9 No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down.
10No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?10And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to me?
11Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.11Who has given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine.
12"I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and its graceful form.12“I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form.
13Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor?13Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?
14Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?14Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!
15Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;15The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together.
16each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.16They are so close together that no air can get between them.
17They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.17Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated.
18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.18“When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn.
19Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.19Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out.
20Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.20Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.
21Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.21Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.
22Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.22“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck strikes terror wherever it goes.
23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.23Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated.
24Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone.
25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.25When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror.
26The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.26No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or javelin.
27Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.27Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood.
28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.28Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.
29A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.29Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.
30Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.30Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.
31It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up 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.
32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.32The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white.
33Nothing on earth is its equal-- a creature without fear.33Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless.
34It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud."34Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts.”
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