Job 41
1 Can you draw out the leviathan with a hook, and can you bind his tongue with a cord?
But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
2 Can you place a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with an arm band?
Or will you fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?
3 Will he offer many prayers to you, or speak to you quietly?
Will he address you with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
4 Will he form a covenant with you, and will you accept him as a servant forever?
And will he make a covenant with you? and will you take him for a perpetual servant?
5 Will you play with him as with a bird, or tether him for your handmaids?
And will you play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
6 Will your friends cut him into pieces, will dealers distribute him?
And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?
7 Will you fill up bags with his hide, and let his head be used as a home for fishes?
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.
8 Place your hand upon him; remember the battle and speak no more.
But you shall lay your hand upon him [once], remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more.
9 Behold, his hope will fail him, and in the sight of all, he will be thrown down.
Hast you not seen him? and have you not wondered at the things said [of him]?
10 I will not rouse him, as the cruel would do, for who is able to withstand my countenance?
Do you not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?
11 Who has given to me beforehand, so that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine?
12 I will not spare him, nor his powerful words and counterfeit attempts at supplication.
I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power [one] shall pity his antagonist.
13 Who can reveal the beauty of his garment? And who can enter the middle of his mouth?
Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?
14 Who can open the doors of his face? I gave fear to the circle of his teeth.
Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.
15 His body is like shields fused together, like dense scales pressed over one another.
His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone.
16 One is joined to another, and not even air can pass between them.
One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air can’t come between them.
17 They adhere to one another, and they hold themselves in place and will not be separated.
They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and can’t be separated.
18 His sneezing has the brilliance of fire, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are [as] the appearance of the morning star.
19 Lamps proceed from his mouth, like torches of fire burning brightly.
Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
20 Smoke passes out of his nostrils, like a pot that is heated and boiling.
Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
21 His breath causes coal to burn, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
22 Strength dwells in his neck, and destitution goes before his presence.
And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
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 flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved.
24 His heart will be as hard as a stone and as dense as a blacksmith’s anvil.
His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
25 When he will be raised up, the angels will be afraid, and, because they are terrified, they will purify themselves.
And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.
26 When a sword catches up with him, it will not be able to settle in, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate.
27 For he will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood.
For he considers iron as chaff, 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 bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass.
29 He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear.
Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
30 The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay.
His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay.
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 boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
32 A path will shine after him; he will esteem the abyss as if it were weakening with age.
and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range.
33 There is no power on the earth that is being compared to him, who has been made so that he fears no one.
There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.
34 He sees every prominent thing; he is king over all the sons of arrogance.
He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.
