Job 41
1 But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
to draw Leviathan in/on/with hook and in/on/with cord to sink tongue his
2 Or will you fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?
to set: put bulrush in/on/with face: nose his and in/on/with thistle to pierce jaw his
3 Will he address you with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
to multiply to(wards) you supplication if: surely yes to speak: speak to(wards) you tender
4 And will he make a covenant with you? and will you take him for a perpetual servant?
to cut: make(covenant) covenant with you to take: take him to/for servant/slave forever: enduring
5 And will you play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
to laugh in/on/with him like/as bird and to conspire him to/for maiden your
6 And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?
to trade upon him associate to divide him between: among merchant
7 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.
to fill in/on/with spear skin his and in/on/with spear fish head his
8 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.
to set: put upon him palm your to remember battle not to add: again
9 Hast you not seen him? and have you not wondered at the things said [of him]?
look! hope his to lie also to(wards) appearance his to cast
10 Do you not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?
not cruel for to rouse him and who? he/she/it to/for face: before my to stand
11 Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine?
who? to meet me and to complete underneath: under all [the] heaven to/for me he/she/it
12 I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power [one] shall pity his antagonist.
(to/for him *Q(K)*) be quiet bluster his and word: thing might and beauty valuation his
13 Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?
who? to reveal: uncover face: surface clothing his in/on/with double bridle his who? to come (in): come
14 Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.
door face his who? to open around tooth his terror
15 His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone.
pride channel shield to shut signet narrow
16 One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air can’t come between them.
one in/on/with one to approach: approach and spirit: breath not to come (in): come between them
17 They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and can’t be separated.
man: anyone in/on/with brother: compatriot his to cleave to capture and not to separate
18 At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are [as] the appearance of the morning star.
sneezing his to shine light and eye his like/as eyelid dawn
19 Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
from lip his torch to go: went spark fire to escape
20 Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
from nostril his to come out: come smoke like/as pot to breathe and bulrush
21 His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
soul: life his coal to kindle and flame from lip his to come out: come
22 And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
in/on/with neck his to lodge strength and to/for face: before his to dance dismay
23 The flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved.
refuse flesh his to cleave to pour: cast metal upon him not to shake
24 His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
heart his to pour: firm like stone and to pour: firm like/as millstone lower
25 And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.
from elevation his to dread god from breaking to sin
26 If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate.
to overtake him sword without to arise: establish spear missile and lance
27 For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.
to devise: think to/for straw iron to/for tree: wood rottenness bronze
28 The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass.
not to flee him son: type of bow to/for stubble to overturn to/for him stone sling
29 Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
like/as stubble to devise: think club and to laugh to/for quaking javelin
30 His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay.
underneath: under him point earthenware to spread sharp upon mud
31 He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
to boil like/as pot depth sea to set: make like/as ointment pot/seasoning
32 and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range.
after him to light path to devise: think abyss to/for greyheaded
33 There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.
nothing upon dust likeness his [the] to make to/for without terror
34 He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.
[obj] all high to see: see he/she/it king upon all son: child pride
