Job 41
1 Can you draw out the leviathan with a hook, and can you bind his tongue with a cord?
Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Can you place a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with an arm band?
Canst thou put a ring into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a hook?
3 Will he offer many prayers to you, or speak to you quietly?
Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak soft words unto thee?
4 Will he form a covenant with you, and will you accept him as 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 with a bird, or tether him for your handmaids?
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6 Will your friends cut him into pieces, will dealers distribute him?
Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him? Will they part him among the merchants?
7 Will you fill up bags with his hide, and let his head be used as a home for fishes?
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears?
8 Place your hand upon him; remember the battle and speak no more.
Lay thy hand upon him; think upon the battle, thou wilt do so no more.
9 Behold, his hope will fail him, and in the sight of all, he will be thrown down.
Behold, the hope of him is in vain; shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 I will not rouse him, as the cruel would do, for who is able to withstand my countenance?
None is so fierce that dare stir him up; who then is able to stand before Me?
11 Who has given to me beforehand, so that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
Who hath given Me anything beforehand, that I should repay him? Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is Mine.
12 I will not spare him, nor his powerful words and counterfeit attempts at supplication.
Would I keep silence concerning his boastings, or his proud talk, or his fair array of words?
13 Who can reveal the beauty of his garment? And who can enter the middle of his mouth?
Who can uncover the face of his garment? Who shall come within his double bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face? I gave fear to the circle of his teeth.
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
15 His body is like shields fused together, like dense scales pressed over one another.
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16 One is joined to another, and not even air can pass between them.
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17 They adhere to one another, and they hold themselves in place and will not be separated.
They are joined one to another; they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18 His sneezing has the brilliance of fire, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Lamps proceed from his mouth, like torches of fire burning brightly.
Out of his mouth go burning torches, and sparks of fire leap forth.
20 Smoke passes out of his nostrils, like a pot that is heated and boiling.
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.
21 His breath causes coal to burn, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22 Strength dwells in his neck, and destitution goes before his presence.
In his neck abideth strength, and dismay danceth before him.
23 The parts of his body work in harmony together. He will send lightning bolts against him, and they will not be carried to another place.
The flakes of his flesh are joined together; they are firm upon him; they cannot be moved.
24 His heart will be as hard as a stone and as dense as a blacksmith’s anvil.
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, firm as the nether millstone.
25 When he will be raised up, the angels will be afraid, and, because they are terrified, they will purify themselves.
When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid; by reason of despair they are beside themselves.
26 When a sword catches up with him, it will not be able to settle in, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
If one lay at him with the sword, it will not hold; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
27 For he will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood.
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28 The archer will not cause him to flee; the stones of the sling have been turned into stubble for him.
The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
29 He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear.
Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.
30 The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay.
Sharpest potsherds are under him; he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
31 He will make the depths of the sea boil like a pot, and he will set it to bubble just as ointments do.
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a seething mixture.
32 A path will shine after him; he will esteem the abyss as if it were weakening with age.
He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
33 There is no power on the earth that is being compared to him, who has been made so that he fears no one.
Upon earth there is not his like, who is made to be fearless.
34 He sees every prominent thing; he is king over all the sons of arrogance.
He looketh at all high things; he is king over all the proud beasts.
