Job 41
1 But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
"Can you draw out Deinosuchus with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?
Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
3 Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
4 And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?
Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
5 And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
6 And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?
Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
7 And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither [shall they carry] his head in fishing-vessels.
Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
8 But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him [once], remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more.
If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle, and you will never do it again.
9 Hast thou not seen him? and hast thou not wondered at the things said [of him]?
Look, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?
None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
11 Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine?
Who has confronted me, that I should repay? Everything under the heavens is mine.
12 I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power [one] shall pity his antagonist.
"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
13 Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
14 Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
15 His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone.
Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
16 One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them.
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17 They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated.
They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.
18 At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are [as] the appearance of the morning star.
His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.
20 Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
22 And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
23 The flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved.
The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.
24 His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
25 And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.
When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
26 If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate.
If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
27 For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.
He counts iron as straw; and bronze as rotten wood.
28 The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass.
The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
29 Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
30 His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay.
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range.
He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
33 There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.
On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
34 He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.
He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride."
