Job 41
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Chapter 41
God continues to ask Job questions
1‘It is the same with the sea monsters called Leviathan. #41:1 This may be speaking about the animal that we call a crocodile.
Can you catch them with a hook?
Can you use a rope to keep their mouths shut?
2Can you tie a rope through their noses?
Can you put a hook into their mouths.
3No! They will not ask you nicely to be kind
and let them go free.
4They will not make any agreement with you.
You cannot make them your slaves
to work for you as long as they live.
5Leviathan is not something to enjoy at home, like a bird.
You cannot tie it with a rope,
so that your girls can play with it.
6 Traders do not buy it at the market.
They do not cut it up to sell it.
7Job, can you throw spears into Leviathan's body to kill it?
Can you shoot arrows into its head?
8If you try to take hold of it,
you will never forget the fight!
You will never try to do that again!
9If anyone hopes to catch it,
he is deceiving himself.
As soon as he sees it,
he no longer feels so brave!
10No one is brave enough to wake it.
So is anyone brave enough to argue against me?
11Nobody has ever won against me
to make me pay them anything.
Everything in the whole world belongs to me.
12I must tell you how strong Leviathan's legs are.
Their bodies are very strong
and they have a wonderful shape.
13Nobody is able to remove their thick skin.
It is like armour that nobody can cut through.
14Nobody is strong enough to open its mouth.
Its teeth make everyone afraid.
15Its back is like rows of shields.
They are as hard as stone with no spaces between them.
16Each shield is very near the next one.
Not even air can pass between them.
17They are strongly joined together,
and nothing can pull them apart.
18When Leviathan breathes out loudly,
bright light shines from its nose.
Its eyes shine like the red sun at dawn.
19Fire comes out from its mouth.
Bright flames shoot out!
20Smoke pours out from its nose,
like reeds that burn under a pot.
21Its breath is hot enough to light a fire!
Flames pour out of its mouth.
22Its neck is very strong.
Wherever it goes,
people shake with fear.
23There are no weak places in its skin.
Its skin is as hard as iron.
24It is cruel and it has no fear.
Its heart is as hard as stone.
25Even the bravest people are afraid
when Leviathan appears.
They run away when it starts to move.
26If you hit it with a sword,
you will not hurt it.
Spears, arrows and knives will be useless.
27It can easily break iron or bronze weapons.
It breaks them as easily as grass or soft wood.
28If you shoot arrows at it,
it will not run away.
If you use a sling to throw stones at it,
the stones will hurt it no more than bits of chaff.
29If you hit it with a heavy stick,
that hurts it no more than a piece of straw.
If you throw a spear at it,
it laughs!
30Its stomach has sharp pieces,
like bits of a pot that someone has broken.
When it moves along,
it ploughs the soil under it.
31When it swims in the deep water of the sea,
the water seems to boil.
It makes big waves,
like oil that is boiling in a pot.
32As it swims, the water behind it shines.
It makes waves that look like white hair on the sea.
33There is no other animal like it in the whole world.
It is not afraid of anything.
34It does not respect any other great animal.
It rules as king over all the proud animals.’
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