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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Job 41
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Ps 74.14; 104.26; Isa 27.1. Canst thou draw out leviathan#41.1 leviathan or the crocodile. with a hook?
or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2Canst thou put a hook into his nose?
or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3Will he make many supplications unto thee?
Will he speak soft words unto thee?
4Will he make a covenant with thee?
Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird?
Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6Shall the companions make a banquet of him?
Shall they part him among the merchants?
7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons?
or his head with fish spears?
8Lay thine hand upon him,
remember the battle, do no more.
9Behold, the hope of him is in vain:
shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10None is so fierce that dare stir him up:
who then is able to stand before me?
11 #
Rom 11.35. Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him?
Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12I will not conceal his parts,
nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13Who can discover the face of his garment?
Or who can come to him with his double bridle?
14Who can open the doors of his face?
His teeth are terrible round about.
15 His scales are his pride,
shut up together as with a close seal.
16One is so near to another,
that no air can come between them.
17They are joined one to another,
they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18By his sneezings a light doth shine,
and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19Out of his mouth go burning lamps,
and sparks of fire leap out.
20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke,
as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21His breath kindleth coals,
and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22In his neck remaineth strength,
and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
23The flakes of his flesh are joined together:
they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24His heart is as firm as a stone;
yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid:
by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold:
the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27He esteemeth iron as straw,
and brass as rotten wood.
28The arrow cannot make him flee:
sling stones are turned with him into stubble.
29Darts are counted as stubble:
he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
30Sharp stones are under him:
he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot:
he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
32He maketh a path to shine after him;
one would think the deep to be hoary.
33Upon earth there is not his like,
who is made without fear.
34He beholdeth all high things:
he is a king over all the children of pride.
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