Job 41
1 Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?
Canst thou draw out the crocodile with a fishhook? or cause his tongue to sink into the batted rope?
2 Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?
Canst thou put a reed through his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3 Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?
Will he address many supplications unto thee? or will he speak submissively unto thee?
4 Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?
Will he make a covenant with thee? that thou couldst take him as a servant for ever?
5 Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?
Canst thou play with him as with a bird? and tie him up for thy maidens?
6 Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?
Can companions waylay him? can they divide him among merchants?
7 Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with his head?
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? and [pierce] with a fish-spear his head?
8 Lay thy hand upon him: remember the battle, and speak no more.
Lay thy hand upon him; think of the battle: thou wilt never do it again.
9 Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down.
Behold, his expectation was deceived: even at his mere sight is he cast down.
10 I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel: for who can resist my countenance?
None is so daring that he would stir him up: and who is there that will stand up before me?
11 Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
Who hath shown me favor, that I should repay him! whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.—
12 I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.
I will not conceal [the account of] his limbs, nor the relation of his might, nor the grace of his proportion.
13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
Who hath ever laid open the front of his garment? or who can penetrate into his double row of teeth?
14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
Who hath opened the doors of his face? all round about his teeth abideth terror.
15 His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.
What pride is there in [his] strong shields; he is locked up as with a close seal.
16 One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them:
One is joined to another; and no breath can come between them.
17 They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.
They are fitted closely one to another: they are interlocked, that they cannot be severed.
18 His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.
From his sneezing there beameth forth a light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning-dawn.
19 Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.
Out of his mouth issue burning torches, sparks of fire escape [therefrom].
20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.
Out of his nostrils cometh forth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh out of his mouth.
22 In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face.
In his neck abideth strength, and before him danceth terror joyfully.
23 The members of his flesh cleave one to another: he shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.
The flakes of his flesh are fitted closely together: they are as molten metal on him, immovable.
24 His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith’s anvil.
His heart is firm like a stone: yea, as firm as the nether millstone.
25 When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves.
At his lifting himself up the mighty are terrified: the waves also are lessened.
26 When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
If one overtake him with the sword, it cannot hold; nor the spear, the dart, and armor.
27 For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
He esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood.
28 The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.
The child of the bow cannot make him flee: into stubble are slingstones changed unto him.
29 As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
Clubs are esteemed as stubble, and he laugheth at the whirring of the lance.
30 The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
Beneath him are sharp-pointed potsherds, he spreadeth out, [as it were, a] threshing-roller upon the mire.
31 He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.
He causeth the deep to boil like a pot: he rendereth the sea like an apothecary's mixture.
32 A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing old.
Behind him he causeth his pathway to shine, [so that] men esteem the deep to be hoary.
33 There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one.
There is none upon earth that ruleth over him, who is made to be without dread.
34 He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children of pride.
He looketh upon all that is high: he is the king over all the ravenous beasts.
