Job 41
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Ps 74.14; 104.26; Is 27.1 Can you catch Leviathan#41.1 Leviathan: See 3.8. with a fish-hook
or tie his tongue down with a rope?
2Can you put a rope through his snout
or put a hook through his jaws?
3Will he beg you to let him go?
Will he plead with you for mercy?
4Will he make an agreement with you
and promise to serve you for ever?
5Will you tie him up like a pet bird,
like something to amuse your servant women?
6Will fishermen bargain over him?
Will merchants cut him up to sell?
7Can you fill his hide with fishing spears
or pierce his head with a harpoon?
8Touch him once and you'll never try it again;
you'll never forget the fight!
9Anyone who sees Leviathan
loses courage and falls to the ground.
10When he is aroused, he is fierce;
no one would dare to stand before him.
11Who can attack him and still be safe?
No one in all the world can do it.#41.11 Verse 11 in Hebrew is unclear.
12Let me tell you about Leviathan's legs
and describe how great and strong he is.
13No one can tear off his outer coat
or pierce the armour#41.13 One ancient translation armour; Hebrew bridle. he wears.
14Who can make him open his jaws,
ringed with those terrifying teeth?
15His back#41.15 Some ancient translations back; Hebrew pride. is made of rows of shields,
fastened together and hard as stone.
16Each one is joined so tight to the next,
not even a breath can come between.
17They all are fastened so firmly together
that nothing can ever pull them apart.
18Light flashes when he sneezes,
and his eyes glow like the rising sun.
19Flames blaze from his mouth,
and streams of sparks fly out.
20Smoke comes pouring out of his nose,
like smoke from weeds burning under a pot.
21His breath starts fires burning;
flames leap out of his mouth.
22His neck is so powerful
that all who meet him are terrified.
23There is not a weak spot in his skin;
it is as hard and unyielding as iron.
24His stony heart is without fear,
as unyielding and hard as a millstone.
25When he rises up, even the strongest#41.25 strongest; or gods. are frightened;
they are helpless with fear.
26There is no sword that can wound him;
no spear or arrow or lance that can harm him.
27For him iron is as flimsy as straw,
and bronze as soft as rotten wood.
28There is no arrow that can make him run;
rocks thrown at him are like bits of straw.
29To him a club is a piece of straw,
and he laughs when men throw spears.
30The scales on his belly are like jagged pieces of pottery;
they tear up the muddy ground like a threshing-sledge.#41.30 threshing-sledge(s): These had sharp pieces of iron or stone fastened beneath them.
31He churns up the sea like boiling water
and makes it bubble like a pot of oil.
32He leaves a shining path behind him
and turns the sea to white foam.
33There is nothing on earth to compare with him;
he is a creature that has no fear.
34He looks down on even the proudest animals;
he is king of all wild beasts.
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Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
Job 41
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God’s Power Shown in Creatures
1“#41:1 Ch 40:25 in Hebrew.Can you draw out #41:1 Or the crocodile. In recent years archeologists have uncovered the remains of crocodiles much larger and far more terrifying than those known today.Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?
2“Can you put a rope [made] of rushes into his nose
Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
3“Will he make many supplications to you [begging to be spared]?
Or will he speak soft words to you [to coax you to treat him kindly]?
4“Will he make a covenant or an arrangement with you?
Will you take him for your servant forever?
5“Will you play with him as with a bird?
Or will you bind him [and put him on a leash] for your maidens?
6“Will traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7“Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?
8“Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle [with him]; you will not do such [an ill-advised thing] again!
9“#41:9 Ch 41:4 in Hebrew.Behold, his [assailant’s] hope and expectation [of defeating Leviathan] is false;
Will not one be overwhelmed even at the sight of him?
10“No one is so fierce [and foolhardy] that he dares to stir up Leviathan;
Who then is he who can stand before Me [or dares to contend with Me, the beast’s creator]?
11“Who has first given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine. [Who can have a claim against Me who made the unmastered beast?] [Rom 11:35]
12¶“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
Nor his mighty strength, nor his orderly frame.
13“Who can penetrate or strip off his outer armor?
Who can come to his jaws with a double bridle?
14“Who can open the doors (jaws) of his face?
Around his [open jaws and] teeth there is terror.
15“His strong scales are his pride,
Bound together as with a tight seal.
16“One is so near to another
That no air can come between them.
17“They are joined one to another;
They stick together and cannot be separated.
18“His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the [reddish] eyelids of the dawn.
19“Out of his mouth go burning torches,
And sparks of fire leap out.
20“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and [as from] burning rushes.
21“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
22“In Leviathan’s neck resides strength,
And dismay and terror dance before him.
23“The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm on him and immobile [when he moves].
24“His heart is as hard as a stone,
Indeed, as solid as a lower millstone.
25“When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
26“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor [does] the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27“He considers iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.
28“The arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are treated as stubble by him.
29“Clubs [also] are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin.
30“His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery;
He moves across and spreads out [grooves] like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks).
31“He makes the deep water boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a [foaming] pot of ointment.
32“Behind him he makes a shining wake;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired [with foam].
33“Upon earth there is nothing like him—no equal exists,
A creature made without fear.
34“He looks on everything that is high [without terror];
He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, #41:34 This repeats the thought of vv 10, 11, which is the key to God’s argument with Job.who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”
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