Job 41
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God’s Power Shown in Creatures
1“#41:1 Ch 40:25 in Hebrew.Can you draw out #41:1 Or the crocodile. In recent years archeologists have uncovered the remains of crocodiles much larger and far more terrifying than those known today.Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?
2“Can you put a rope [made] of rushes into his nose
Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
3“Will he make many supplications to you [begging to be spared]?
Or will he speak soft words to you [to coax you to treat him kindly]?
4“Will he make a covenant or an arrangement with you?
Will you take him for your servant forever?
5“Will you play with him as with a bird?
Or will you bind him [and put him on a leash] for your maidens?
6“Will traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7“Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?
8“Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle [with him]; you will not do such [an ill-advised thing] again!
9“#41:9 Ch 41:4 in Hebrew.Behold, his [assailant’s] hope and expectation [of defeating Leviathan] is false;
Will not one be overwhelmed even at the sight of him?
10“No one is so fierce [and foolhardy] that he dares to stir up Leviathan;
Who then is he who can stand before Me [or dares to contend with Me, the beast’s creator]?
11“Who has first given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine. [Who can have a claim against Me who made the unmastered beast?] [Rom 11:35]
12¶“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
Nor his mighty strength, nor his orderly frame.
13“Who can penetrate or strip off his outer armor?
Who can come to his jaws with a double bridle?
14“Who can open the doors (jaws) of his face?
Around his [open jaws and] teeth there is terror.
15“His strong scales are his pride,
Bound together as with a tight seal.
16“One is so near to another
That no air can come between them.
17“They are joined one to another;
They stick together and cannot be separated.
18“His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the [reddish] eyelids of the dawn.
19“Out of his mouth go burning torches,
And sparks of fire leap out.
20“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and [as from] burning rushes.
21“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
22“In Leviathan’s neck resides strength,
And dismay and terror dance before him.
23“The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm on him and immobile [when he moves].
24“His heart is as hard as a stone,
Indeed, as solid as a lower millstone.
25“When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
26“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor [does] the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27“He considers iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.
28“The arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are treated as stubble by him.
29“Clubs [also] are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin.
30“His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery;
He moves across and spreads out [grooves] like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks).
31“He makes the deep water boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a [foaming] pot of ointment.
32“Behind him he makes a shining wake;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired [with foam].
33“Upon earth there is nothing like him—no equal exists,
A creature made without fear.
34“He looks on everything that is high [without terror];
He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, #41:34 This repeats the thought of vv 10, 11, which is the key to God’s argument with Job.who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”
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Job 41
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1Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down — his tongue?
2Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw?
3Doth he multiply unto thee supplications? Doth he speak unto thee tender things?
4Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?
5Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels?
6(Feast upon him do companions, They divide him among the merchants!)
7Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with fish-spears his head?
8Place on him thy hand, Remember the battle — do not add!
9Lo, the hope of him is found a liar, Also at his appearance is not one cast down?
10None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who [is] he before Me stationeth himself?
11Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] mine.
12I do not keep silent concerning his parts, And the matter of might, And the grace of his arrangement.
13Who hath uncovered the face of his clothing? Within his double bridle who doth enter?
14The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth [are] terrible.
15A pride — strong ones of shields, Shut up — a close seal.
16One unto another they draw nigh, And air doth not enter between them.
17One unto another they adhere, They stick together and are not separated.
18His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes [are] as the eyelids of the dawn.
19Out of his mouth do flames go, sparks of fire escape.
20Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, As a blown pot and reeds.
21His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth.
22In his neck lodge doth strength, And before him doth grief exult.
23The flakes of his flesh have adhered — Firm upon him — it is not moved.
24His heart [is] firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the lower piece.
25From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free.
26The sword of his overtaker standeth not, Spear — dart — and lance.
27He reckoneth iron as straw, brass as rotten wood.
28The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by him into stubble are stones of the sling.
29As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.
30Under him [are] sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.
31He causeth to boil as a pot the deep, The sea he maketh as a pot of ointment.
32After him he causeth a path to shine, One thinketh the deep to be hoary.
33There is not on the earth his like, That is made without terror.
34Every high thing he doth see, He [is] king over all sons of pride.
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