Job 41
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1“Can you pull out Leviathan#41:1. Leviathan: some identify this creature with the crocodile, or a mythical beast. It is also mentioned in 3:8. with a hook? Can you tie its mouth shut? 2Can you thread a rope through its nose? Can you pass a hook through its jaw? 3Will it beg you to let it go? Or will it talk softly to you? 4Will it make a contract with you? Will it agree to be your slave forever? 5Will you play with it like a pet bird? Will you put it on a leash for your girls? 6Will your trading partners decide on a price for him, and divide him up among the merchants? 7Can you pierce his skin with many harpoons, its head with fishing spears? 8If you were to grab hold of it, imagine the battle you would have! You wouldn't do that again! 9Any hope to capture it is foolish. Anyone who tries is thrown to the ground. 10Since no one has the courage to provoke Leviathan, who would dare to stand up against me? 11Who has confronted me with any claim that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
12Let me tell you about Leviathan: its powerful legs and graceful proportions. 13Who can remove its hide? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor?#41:13. Or “who can approach it with a double bridle?” 14Who can open its jaws? Its teeth are terrifying! 15Its pride#41:15. Or “back.” is its rows of scales, closed tightly together. 16Its scales are so close together that no air can pass between them. 17Each scale attaches to the next; they lock together and nothing can penetrate them. 18When it sneezes light shines out. Its eyes are like the rising sun. 19Flames pour from its mouth, sparks of fire shoot out. 20Smoke comes from its nostrils, like steam from a kettle on a fire made of reeds. 21Its breath sets fire to charcoal as flames shoot from its mouth. 22Its neck is powerful, and all who face him shake with terror. 23Its body is dense and solid, as if it is made from cast metal. 24Its heart is rock-hard, like a millstone. 25When it rises, even the powerful are terrified; they retreat as it thrashes about. 26Swords just bounce off it, as do spears, darts, and javelins. 27It brushes aside iron like straw, and bronze like rotten wood. 28Arrows cannot make it run away; stones from slingshots are like pieces of stubble. 29Clubs are also treated like stubble; it laughs at the sound made by flying spears. 30Its underparts are covered with points as sharp as broken pots; when it drags itself through the mud it leaves marks like a threshing sledge.#41:30. Threshing sledge: a board with sharp spikes for threshing grain. 31It churns up the sea like water in a boiling pot, like a steaming bowl when ointment is mixed. 32It leaves a glistening wake behind it as if the sea had white hair. 33There is nothing on earth like it: a creature that has no fear. 34It looks down on all other creatures. It is the proudest of all.”
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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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