Job 41
41
Leviathan
1 # 41.1 40:25 in Heb Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook,
restrain his tongue with a rope?
2Can you put a cord through his nose,
pierce his jaw with a barb?
3Will he beg you at length
or speak gentle words to you?
4Will he make a pact with you
so that you will take him as a permanent slave?
5Can you play with him like a bird,
put a leash on him for your girls?
6Will merchants sell him;
will they divide him among traders?
7Can you fill his hide with darts,
his head with a fishing spear?
8Should you lay your hand on him,
you would never remember the battle.
9Such hopes#41.9 Or his hopes would be delusional;
surely the sight of him makes one stumble.
10Nobody is fierce enough to rouse him;
who then can stand before me?
11Who opposes me that I must repay?
Everything under heaven is mine.
12I’m not awed by his limbs,
his strength, and impressive form.
13Who can remove his outer garment;
who can come with a bridle for him?
14Who can open the doors of his mouth,
surrounded by frightening teeth?
15His matching scales are his pride,
closely locked and sealed.
16One touches another;
even air can’t come between them.
17Each clings to its pair;
joined, they can’t be separated.
18His sneezes emit flashes of light;
his eyes are like dawn’s rays.
19Shafts of fire shoot from his mouth;
like fiery sparks they fly out.
20Smoke pours from his nostrils
like a boiling pot over reeds.
21His breath lights coals;
a flame shoots from his mouth.
22Power resides in his neck;
violence dances before him.
23The folds of his flesh stick together;
on him they are tough and unyielding.
24His heart is solid like a rock,
hard like a lower millstone.
25The divine beings dread his rising;
they withdraw before his thrashing.
26The sword that touches him won’t prevail;
neither will the dart, spear, nor javelin.
27He treats iron as straw,
bronze as rotten wood.
28Arrows can’t make him flee;
slingstones he turns to straw.
29He treats a club like straw;
he laughs at the lance’s rattle.
30His abdomen is like jagged pottery shards;
its sharp edges leave a trail in the mud.
31He causes the depths to churn like a boiling pot,
stirs up the sea like a pot of scented oils,
32leaves a bright wake behind him;
the frothy deep seems white-haired.
33None on earth can compare to him;
he is made to be without fear.
34He looks on all the proud;
he is king over all proud beasts.
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Iyov 41
41
1 Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a khakah (fishhook)? Or tie down his leshon with a cord?
2 Canst thou put a hook into his af (nose)? Or bore his jaw through with a barb?
3 Will he make many tachanunim unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee?
4 Will he make a brit (covenant) with thee? Wilt thou take him for an eved olam?
5 Wilt thou play with him as with a pet bird? Or wilt thou leash him for thy na'arot (maidens)?
6 Shall traders barter for him? Shall they divide him among the Kena'anim (Canaanites, merchants)?
7 Canst thou fill his ohr (skin) with harpoons? Or his head with fishing spears?
8 Lay thine hand upon him; remember the milchamah. Thou wilt not do it more.
9 See, every tokhelet (expectation) is false; shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 None is so foolhardy that dare stir him up. Mi (who) then is able to stand before Me?
11 Mi (who) hath given Me, that I must repay him? Whatsoever is under the kol HaShomayim is Mine.
12 I will not keep silent about his members, nor his gevurah, nor the grace of his form.
13 Mi (who) can remove his outer garment? Or mi (who) can come near him with a double bridle?
14 Mi (who) can open the doors of his face? Terror is round about his teeth.
15 His scales are his ga'avah (pride), shut up together as with a rigid chotam (seal).
16 One is so near to another, that no ruach (air) can pass between them.
17 They are joined one to another; they stick together, inseparably.
18 By his sneezings ohr flares out, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the shachar.
19 Out of his mouth goeth flame, and sparks of eish leap out.
20 Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, like a seething pot or caldron.
21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22 In his neck resideth oz (strength), and terror dances before him.
23 The flanks of his basar are joined together; they are firm in themselves, immoveable.
24 His lev (chest) is as firm as an even (stone); yea, as hard as the lower millstone.
25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid; shuddering they retreat.
26 The cherev of him that reacheth at him cannot hold — the spear, the dart, nor the harpoon.
27 He esteemeth barzel (iron) like straw, and nechoshet as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee; sling stones are turned with him into stubble.
29 Clubs are counted as straw; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
30 Sharp shards are his under parts; he leaveth a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he stirreth the yam like a pot of ointment.
32 He maketh a wake to shine after him; one would think the deep to be white hair.
33 Upon earth there is not his equal, who is created without fear.
34 He beholdeth all things lofty; he is a melech over every proud beast.
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