Job 41
1 “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
to draw Leviathan in/on/with hook and in/on/with cord to sink tongue his
2 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
to set: put bulrush in/on/with face: nose his and in/on/with thistle to pierce jaw his
3 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
to multiply to(wards) you supplication if: surely yes to speak: speak to(wards) you tender
4 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
to cut: make(covenant) covenant with you to take: take him to/for servant/slave forever: enduring
5 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
to laugh in/on/with him like/as bird and to conspire him to/for maiden your
6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
to trade upon him associate to divide him between: among merchant
7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
to fill in/on/with spear skin his and in/on/with spear fish head his
8 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
to set: put upon him palm your to remember battle not to add: again
9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?
look! hope his to lie also to(wards) appearance his to cast
10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
not cruel for to rouse him and who? he/she/it to/for face: before my to stand
11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
who? to meet me and to complete underneath: under all [the] heaven to/for me he/she/it
12 “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
(to/for him *QK) be quiet bluster his and word: thing might and beauty valuation his
13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?
who? to reveal: uncover face: surface clothing his in/on/with double bridle his who? to come (in): come
14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
door face his who? to open around tooth his terror
15 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
pride channel shield to shut signet narrow
16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
one in/on/with one to approach: approach and spirit: breath not to come (in): come between them
17 They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.
man: anyone in/on/with brother: compatriot his to cleave to capture and not to separate
18 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
sneezing his to shine light and eye his like/as eyelid dawn
19 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.
from lip his torch to go: went spark fire to escape
20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
from nostril his to come out: come smoke like/as pot to breathe and bulrush
21 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.
soul: life his coal to kindle and flame from lip his to come out: come
22 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
in/on/with neck his to lodge strength and to/for face: before his to dance dismay
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.
refuse flesh his to cleave to pour: cast metal upon him not to shake
24 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
heart his to pour: firm like stone and to pour: firm like/as millstone lower
25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
from elevation his to dread god from breaking to sin
26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
to overtake him sword without to arise: establish spear missile and lance
27 He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
to devise: think to/for straw iron to/for tree: wood rottenness bronze
28 The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
not to flee him son: type of bow to/for stubble to overturn to/for him stone sling
29 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
like/as stubble to devise: think club and to laugh to/for quaking javelin
30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
underneath: under him point earthenware to spread sharp upon mud
31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
to boil like/as pot depth sea to set: make like/as ointment pot/seasoning
32 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
after him to light path to devise: think abyss to/for greyheaded
33 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
nothing upon dust likeness his [the] to make to/for without terror
34 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”
[obj] all high to see: see he/she/it king upon all son: child pride
