| New Living Translation | Berean Study Bible |
| 1 “Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw? | 1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope? |
| 2Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike? | 2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? |
| 3Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity? | 3Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly? |
| 4Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life? | 4Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life? |
| 5Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with? | 5Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens? |
| 6Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops? | 6Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants? |
| 7Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon? | 7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? |
| 8If you lay a hand on it, you will certainly remember the battle that follows. You won’t try that again! | 8If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it! |
| 9 No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down. | 9Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming? |
| 10And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to me? | 10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me? |
| 11Who has given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine. | 11Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine. |
| 12“I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form. | 12I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form. |
| 13Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor? | 13Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle? |
| 14Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible! | 14Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth? |
| 15The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together. | 15His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together. |
| 16They are so close together that no air can get between them. | 16One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them. |
| 17Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated. | 17They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated. |
| 18“When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn. | 18His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn. |
| 19Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out. | 19Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth! |
| 20Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes. | 20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. |
| 21Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth. | 21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth. |
| 22“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck strikes terror wherever it goes. | 22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him. |
| 23Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated. | 23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable. |
| 24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone. | 24His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone! |
| 25When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror. | 25When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing. |
| 26No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or javelin. | 26The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow. |
| 27Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood. | 27He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. |
| 28Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass. | 28No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him. |
| 29Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins. | 29A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance. |
| 30Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud. | 30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge. |
| 31“Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment. | 31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment. |
| 32The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white. | 32He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair! |
| 33Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless. | 33Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear! |
| 34Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts.” | 34He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.” |
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