Job 41
1 Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or tie up his jaws with a cord?
Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
Canst thou put a ring into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a hook?
3 Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak soft words to you?
Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak soft words unto thee?
4 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?
5 Will you play with him as you would with a bird? Will you tie him up for your servant girls?
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6 Will the groups of fishermen bargain for him? Will they divide him up to trade among the merchants?
Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him? Will they part him among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears?
8 Put your hand on him just once, and you will remember the battle and do it no more.
Lay thy hand upon him; think upon the battle, thou wilt do so no more.
9 See, the hope of anyone who does that is a lie; will not anyone be thrown down to the ground just by the sight of him?
Behold, the hope of him is in vain; shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 None is so fierce that he dare stir Leviathan up; who, then, is he who can stand before me?
None is so fierce that dare stir him up; who then is able to stand before Me?
11 Who has first given anything to me in order that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole sky is mine.
Who hath given Me anything beforehand, that I should repay him? Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is Mine.
12 I will not keep silent concerning Leviathan's legs, nor about the matter of his strength, nor about his graceful form.
Would I keep silence concerning his boastings, or his proud talk, or his fair array of words?
13 Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double armor?
Who can uncover the face of his garment? Who shall come within his double bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face— ringed with his teeth, which are a terror?
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
15 his back is made up of rows of shields, tight together as with a close seal.
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16 One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17 They are joined to each other; they stick together, so that they cannot be pulled apart.
They are joined one to another; they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18 Light flashes out from his snorting; his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning dawn.
His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Out of his mouth go burning torches, sparks of fire leap out.
Out of his mouth go burning torches, and sparks of fire leap forth.
20 Out of his nostrils goes smoke like a boiling pot on a fire that has been fanned to be very hot.
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.
21 His breath kindles coals into flame; fires go out from his mouth.
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22 In his neck is strength, and terror dances in front of him.
In his neck abideth strength, and dismay danceth before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are joined together; they are firm on him; they cannot be moved.
The flakes of his flesh are joined together; they are firm upon him; they cannot be moved.
24 His heart is as hard as a stone— indeed, as hard as a lower millstone.
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, firm as the nether millstone.
25 When he raises himself up, even the gods become afraid; because of fear, they draw back.
When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid; by reason of despair they are beside themselves.
26 If a sword strikes him, it does nothing— and neither does a spear, an arrow, or any other pointed weapon.
If one lay at him with the sword, it will not hold; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
27 He thinks of iron as if it were straw, and of bronze as if it were rotten wood.
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28 An arrow cannot make him flee; to him sling stones become chaff.
The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
29 Clubs are regarded as straw; he laughs at the whirring flight of a spear.
Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.
30 His lower parts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery; he leaves a spreading trail in the mud as if he were a threshing sledge.
Sharpest potsherds are under him; he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
31 He makes the deep to foam up like a pot of boiling water; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a seething mixture.
32 He makes a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had gray hair.
He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
33 On earth there is no equal to him, who has been made to live without fear.
Upon earth there is not his like, who is made to be fearless.
34 He sees everything that is proud; he is king over all the sons of pride.”
He looketh at all high things; he is king over all the proud beasts.
