Job 41
1 Can you pull out Leviathan with a hook? Can you tie its mouth shut?
Canst thou drawe out Liuiathan with an hooke, and with a line which thou shalt cast downe vnto his tongue?
2 Can you thread a rope through its nose? Can you pass a hook through its jaw?
Canst thou cast an hooke into his nose? canst thou perce his iawes with an angle?
3 Will it beg you to let it go? Or will it talk softly to you?
Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire?
4 Will it make a contract with you? Will it agree to be your slave forever?
Will hee make a couenant with thee? and wilt thou take him as a seruant for euer?
5 Will you play with it like a pet bird? Will you put it on a leash for your girls?
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes?
6 Will your trading partners decide on a price for him, and divide him up among the merchants?
Shall the companions baket with him? shall they deuide him among the marchants?
7 Can you pierce his skin with many harpoons, its head with fishing spears?
Canst thou fill the basket with his skinne? or the fishpanier with his head?
8 If you were to grab hold of it, imagine the battle you would have! You wouldn't do that again!
Lay thine hand vpon him: remember the battel, and do no more so.
9 Any hope to capture it is foolish. Anyone who tries is thrown to the ground.
Behold, his hope is in vaine: for shall not one perish euen at the sight of him?
10 Since no one has the courage to provoke Leviathan, who would dare to stand up against me?
None is so fearce that dare stirre him vp. Who is he then that can stand before me?
11 Who has confronted me with any claim that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
Who hath preuented mee that I shoulde make an ende? Al vnder heauen is mine.
12 Let me tell you about Leviathan: its powerful legs and graceful proportions.
I will not keepe silence concerning his partes, nor his power nor his comely proportion.
13 Who can remove its hide? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor?
Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle?
14 Who can open its jaws? Its teeth are terrifying!
Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull round about.
15 Its pride is its rows of scales, closed tightly together.
The maiestie of his scales is like strog shields, and are sure sealed.
16 Its scales are so close together that no air can pass between them.
One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them.
17 Each scale attaches to the next; they lock together and nothing can penetrate them.
One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered.
18 When it sneezes light shines out. Its eyes are like the rising sun.
His niesings make the light to shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Flames pour from its mouth, sparks of fire shoot out.
Out of his mouth go lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out.
20 Smoke comes from its nostrils, like steam from a kettle on a fire made of reeds.
Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron.
21 Its breath sets fire to charcoal as flames shoot from its mouth.
His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22 Its neck is powerful, and all who face him shake with terror.
In his necke remayneth strength, and labour is reiected before his face.
23 Its body is dense and solid, as if it is made from cast metal.
The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued.
24 Its heart is rock-hard, like a millstone.
His heart is as strong as a stone, and as hard as the nether milstone.
25 When it rises, even the powerful are terrified; they retreat as it thrashes about.
The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues.
26 Swords just bounce off it, as do spears, darts, and javelins.
When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon.
27 It brushes aside iron like straw, and bronze like rotten wood.
He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood.
28 Arrows cannot make it run away; stones from slingshots are like pieces of stubble.
The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him:
29 Clubs are also treated like stubble; it laughs at the sound made by flying spears.
The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare.
30 Its underparts are covered with points as sharp as broken pots; when it drags itself through the mud it leaves marks like a threshing sledge.
Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre.
31 It churns up the sea like water in a boiling pot, like a steaming bowl when ointment is mixed.
He maketh the depth to boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment.
32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it as if the sea had white hair.
He maketh a path to shine after him: one would thinke the depth as an hoare head.
33 There is nothing on earth like it: a creature that has no fear.
In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare.
34 It looks down on all other creatures. It is the proudest of all.”
He beholdeth al hie things: he is a King ouer all the children of pride.
