Job 41
1 Canst thou drawe out Liuiathan with an hooke, and with a line which thou shalt cast downe vnto his tongue?
But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
2 Canst thou cast an hooke into his nose? canst thou perce his iawes with an angle?
Or will you fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?
3 Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire?
Will he address you with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
4 Will hee make a couenant with thee? and wilt thou take him as a seruant for euer?
And will he make a covenant with you? and will you take him for a perpetual servant?
5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes?
And will you play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
6 Shall the companions baket with him? shall they deuide him among the marchants?
And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?
7 Canst thou fill the basket with his skinne? or the fishpanier with his head?
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 Lay thine hand vpon him: remember the battel, and do no more so.
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 is in vaine: for shall not one perish euen at the sight of him?
Hast you not seen him? and have you not wondered at the things said [of him]?
10 None is so fearce that dare stirre him vp. Who is he then that can stand before me?
Do you not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?
11 Who hath preuented mee that I shoulde make an ende? Al vnder heauen is mine.
Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine?
12 I will not keepe silence concerning his partes, nor his power nor his comely proportion.
I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power [one] shall pity his antagonist.
13 Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle?
Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?
14 Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull round about.
Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.
15 The maiestie of his scales is like strog shields, and are sure sealed.
His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone.
16 One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them.
One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air can’t come between them.
17 One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered.
They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and can’t be separated.
18 His niesings make the light to shine, 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 Out of his mouth go lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out.
Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
20 Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron.
Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
21 His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.
His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
22 In his necke remayneth strength, and labour is reiected before his face.
And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
23 The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued.
The flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved.
24 His heart is as strong as a stone, and as hard as the nether milstone.
His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
25 The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues.
And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.
26 When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon.
If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate.
27 He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood.
For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.
28 The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him:
The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass.
29 The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare.
Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
30 Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre.
His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay.
31 He maketh the depth to boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment.
He makes the deep boil like a brazen cauldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
32 He maketh a path to shine after him: one would thinke the depth as an hoare head.
and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range.
33 In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare.
There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.
34 He beholdeth al hie things: he is a King ouer all the children of pride.
He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.
