Job 41
1 Can you draw out the leviathan with a hook, and can you bind his tongue with a cord?
Can you draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?
2 Can you place a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with an arm band?
Can you put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3 Will he offer many prayers to you, or speak to you quietly?
Will he make many supplications to you? will he speak soft words to you?
4 Will he form a covenant with you, and will you accept him as a servant forever?
Will he make a covenant with you? will you take him for a servant for ever?
5 Will you play with him as with a bird, or tether him for your handmaids?
Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your maidens?
6 Will your friends cut him into pieces, will dealers distribute him?
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall 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?
Can you 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 your hand on him, remember the battle, do 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 has prevented me, that I should repay him? whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12 I will not spare him, nor his powerful words and counterfeit attempts at supplication.
I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13 Who can reveal the beauty of his garment? And who can enter the middle of his mouth?
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with 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? his teeth are terrible round about.
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.
By his neesings a light does shine, 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 lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20 Smoke passes out of his nostrils, like a pot that is heated and boiling.
Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21 His breath causes coal to burn, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
22 Strength dwells in his neck, and destitution goes before his presence.
In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy 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 in themselves; 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; yes, as hard as a piece of 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 raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26 When a sword catches up with him, it will not be able to settle in, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27 For he will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood.
He esteems 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: sling stones 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.
Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.
30 The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay.
Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things on 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 makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 A path will shine after him; he will esteem the abyss as if it were weakening with age.
He makes 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.
On earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34 He sees every prominent thing; he is king over all the sons of arrogance.
He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
