Job 41
41
1“Can you draw out Leviathan#41:1 Leviathan is a name for a crocodile or similar creature. with a fish hook,
or press down his tongue with a cord?
2Can you put a rope into his nose,
or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
3Will he make many petitions to you,
or will he speak soft words to you?
4Will he make a covenant with you,
that you should take him for a servant forever?
5Will you play with him as with a bird?
Or will you bind him for your girls?
6Will traders barter for him?
Will they part him among the merchants?
7Can you fill his skin with barbed irons,
or his head with fish spears?
8Lay your hand on him.
Remember the battle, and do so no more.
9Behold, the hope of him is in vain.
Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10None is so fierce that he dare stir him up.
Who then is he who can stand before me?
11Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Everything under the heavens is mine.
12“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
13Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who will come within his jaws?
14Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth is terror.
15Strong scales are his pride,
shut up together with a close seal.
16One is so near to another,
that no air can come between them.
17They are joined to one another.
They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.
18His sneezing flashes out light.
His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19Out of his mouth go burning torches.
Sparks of fire leap out.
20Out of his nostrils a smoke goes,
as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21His breath kindles coals.
A flame goes out of his mouth.
22There is strength in his neck.
Terror dances before him.
23The flakes of his flesh are joined together.
They are firm on him.
They can’t be moved.
24His heart is as firm as a stone,
yes, firm as the lower millstone.
25When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid.
They retreat before his thrashing.
26If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail;
nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
27He counts iron as straw,
and bronze as rotten wood.
28The arrow can’t make him flee.
Sling stones are like chaff to him.
29Clubs are counted as stubble.
He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
30His undersides are like sharp potsherds,
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31He makes the deep to boil like a pot.
He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32He makes a path shine after him.
One would think the deep had white hair.
33On earth there is not his equal,
that is made without fear.
34He sees everything that is high.
He is king over all the sons of pride.”
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Job 41
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# 41 In Hebrew texts 41:1-8 is numbered 40:25-32, and 41:9-34 is numbered 41:1-26. 1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook
or tie down its tongue with a rope?
2Can you put a cord through its nose
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3Will it keep begging you for mercy?
Will it speak to you with gentle words?
4Will it make an agreement with you
for you to take it as 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?
6Will traders barter for it?
Will they divide it up among the merchants?
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?
8If you lay a hand on it,
you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
9Any hope of subduing it is false;
the mere sight of it is overpowering.
10No one is fierce enough to rouse it.
Who then is able to stand against me?
11Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me.
12“I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,
its strength and its graceful form.
13Who can strip off its outer coat?
Who can penetrate its double coat of armor#41:13 Septuagint; Hebrew double bridle?
14Who dares open the doors of its mouth,
ringed about with fearsome teeth?
15Its back has#41:15 Or Its pride is its rows of shields
tightly sealed together;
16each is so close to the next
that no air can pass between.
17They are joined fast to one another;
they cling together and cannot be parted.
18Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19Flames stream from its mouth;
sparks of fire shoot out.
20Smoke pours from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21Its breath sets coals ablaze,
and flames dart from its mouth.
22Strength resides in its neck;
dismay goes before it.
23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm and immovable.
24Its chest is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.
25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;
they retreat before its thrashing.
26The sword that reaches it has no effect,
nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
27Iron it treats like straw
and bronze like rotten wood.
28Arrows do not make it flee;
slingstones are like chaff to it.
29A club seems to it but a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
32It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had white hair.
33Nothing on earth is its equal—
a creature without fear.
34It looks down on all that are haughty;
it is king over all that are proud.”
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