Job 41
41
The LORD Continues: Can You Conquer Leviathan, Job?
1 # 41:1
Job 41:1–34
in English Bibles is Job 40:25–41:26 in the Hebrew Bible. “Can you pull Leviathan out ⌞of the water⌟ with a fishhook
or tie its tongue down with a rope?
2Can you put a ring through its nose
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3Will it plead with you for mercy
or speak tenderly to you?
4Will it make an agreement with you
so that you can take it as your permanent slave?
5Can you play with it like a bird
or keep it on a leash for your girls?
6Will traders bargain over it
and divide it among the merchants?
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?
8Lay your hand on it.
Think of the struggle!
Don’t do it again!
9Certainly, any hope ⌞of defeating it⌟ is a false hope.
Doesn’t the sight of it overwhelm you?
10No one is brave enough to provoke Leviathan.
Then who can stand in front of me? #41:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts “it.”
11Who can confront me that I should repay him?
Everything under heaven belongs to me!
12“I will not be silent about Leviathan’s limbs,
its strength, or its graceful form.
13Who can skin its hide?
Who can approach it with a harness?
14Who can open its closed mouth?
Its teeth are surrounded by terror.
15Its back has rows of scales that are tightly sealed.
16One is so close to the other
that there is no space between them.
17Each is joined to the other.
They are locked together and inseparable.
18When Leviathan sneezes, it gives out a flash of light.
Its eyes are like the first rays of the dawn.
19Flames shoot from its mouth.
Sparks of fire fly from it.
20Smoke comes from its nostrils
like a boiling pot heated over brushwood.
21Its breath sets coals on fire,
and a flame pours from its mouth.
22Strength resides in its neck,
and power dances in front of it.
23The folds of its flesh stick to each other.
They are solid and cannot be moved.
24Its chest is solid like a rock,
solid like a millstone.
25“The mighty are afraid when Leviathan rises.
Broken down, they draw back.
26A sword may strike it but not pierce it.
Neither will a spear, lance, or dart.
27It considers iron to be like straw
and bronze to be like rotten wood.
28An arrow won’t make it run away.
Stones from a sling turn to dust against it.
29It considers clubs to be like stubble,
and it laughs at a rattling javelin.
30Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery.
It stretches out like a threshing #41:30 Threshing is the process of beating stalks to separate them from the grain. sledge on the mud.
31It makes the deep sea boil like a pot.
It stirs up the ocean like a boiling kettle.
32It leaves a shining path behind it
so that the sea appears to have silvery hair.
33Nothing on land can compare to it.
It was made fearless.
34It looks down on all high things.
It is king of everyone who is arrogant.”
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Job 41
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1I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel. For who can resist my countenance?
2Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
3I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.
4Who can discover the face of his garment? Or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
5Who can open the doors of his face? His teeth are terrible round about.
6His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.
7One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them.
8They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.
9His sneezing is like the shining of fire: and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.
10Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.
11Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.
12His breath kindleth coals: and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
13In his neck strength shall dwell: and want goeth before his face.
14The members of his flesh cleave one to another. He shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.
15His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith's anvil.
16When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear: and being affrighted shall purify themselves.
17When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
18For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
19The archer shall not put him to flight: the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.
20As stubble will he esteem the hammer: and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
21The beams of the sun shall be under him: and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
22He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.
23A path shall shine after him: he shall esteem the deep as growing old.
24There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one.
25He beholdeth every high thing. He is king over all the children of pride.
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