Job 41
41
The LORD continues
Can you catch a sea monster?
1Can you catch a sea monster#41.1 sea monster: The Hebrew text has “Leviathan”, which may refer to a sea monster or possibly to a crocodile in this verse (see the note at 3.8).#Ps 74.14; 104.26; Is 27.1.
by using a fish-hook?
Can you tie its mouth shut
with a rope?
2Can it be led around
by a ring in its nose
or a hook in its jaw?
3Will it beg for mercy?
4Will it surrender
as a slave for life?
5Can it be tied by the leg
like a pet bird
for little girls?
6Is it ever chopped up
and its pieces bargained for
in the fish-market?
7Can it be killed
with harpoons or spears?
8Wrestle with it just once—
that will be the end.
9Merely a glimpse of this monster
makes all courage melt.
10And if it is too fierce
for anyone to attack,
who would dare oppose me?
11I am in command of the world
and in debt to no one.
12What powerful legs,
what a stout body
this monster possesses!
13Who could strip off its armour
or bring it under control
with a harness?
14Who would try to open its jaws,
full of fearsome teeth?
15-17Its back#41.15-17 back: Two ancient translations; Hebrew “pride”. is covered
with shield after shield,
firmly bound and closer together
than breath to breath.
When this monster sneezes
18When this monster sneezes,
lightning flashes, and its eyes
glow like the dawn.
19Sparks and fiery flames
explode from its mouth.
20And smoke spews from its nose
like steam
from a boiling pot,
21while its blazing breath
scorches everything in sight.
22Its neck is so tremendous
that everyone trembles,
23the weakest parts of its body
are harder than iron,
24and its heart is stone.
25When this noisy monster appears,
even the most powerful#41.25 most powerful: Or “gods”.
turn and run in fear.
26No sword or spear can harm it,
27and weapons of bronze or iron
are as useless as straw
or rotten wood.
28Stones thrown from a sling
cause it no more harm
than husks of grain.
This monster fears no arrows,
29it simply smiles at spears,
and striking it with a stick
is like slapping it with straw.
30As it crawls through the mud,
its sharp and spiny hide
tears the ground apart.
31And when it swims down deep,
the sea starts churning
like boiling oil,
32and it leaves behind a trail
of shining white foam.
33No other creature on earth
is so fearless.
34It is king of all proud creatures,
and it looks upon the others
as nothing.
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© British and Foreign Bible Society 2012
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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