Job 41
1 But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
| תמשך לויתן בחכה ובחבל תשקיע לשנו׃ |
2 Or will you fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?
| התשים אגמון באפו ובחוח תקוב לחיו׃ |
3 Will he address you with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
| הירבה אליך תחנונים אם ידבר אליך רכות׃ |
4 And will he make a covenant with you? and will you take him for a perpetual servant?
| היכרת ברית עמך תקחנו לעבד עולם׃ |
5 And will you play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
| התשחק בו כצפור ותקשרנו לנערותיך׃ |
6 And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?
| יכרו עליו חברים יחצוהו בין כנענים׃ |
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.
| התמלא בשכות עורו ובצלצל דגים ראשו׃ |
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.
| שים עליו כפך זכר מלחמה אל תוסף׃ |
9 Hast you not seen him? and have you not wondered at the things said [of him]?
| הן תחלתו נכזבה הגם אל מראיו יטל׃ |
10 Do you not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?
| לא אכזר כי יעורנו ומי הוא לפני יתיצב׃ |
11 Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine?
| מי הקדימני ואשלם תחת כל השמים לי הוא׃ |
12 I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power [one] shall pity his antagonist.
| לא אחריש בדיו ודבר גבורות וחין ערכו׃ |
13 Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?
| מי גלה פני לבושו בכפל רסנו מי יבוא׃ |
14 Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.
| דלתי פניו מי פתח סביבות שניו אימה׃ |
15 His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone.
| גאוה אפיקי מגנים סגור חותם צר׃ |
16 One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air can’t come between them.
| אחד באחד יגשו ורוח לא יבוא ביניהם׃ |
17 They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and can’t be separated.
| איש באחיהו ידבקו יתלכדו ולא יתפרדו׃ |
18 At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are [as] the appearance of the morning star.
| עטישתיו תהל אור ועיניו כעפעפי שחר׃ |
19 Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
| מפיו לפידים יהלכו כידודי אש יתמלטו׃ |
20 Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
| מנחיריו יצא עשן כדוד נפוח ואגמן׃ |
21 His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
| נפשו גחלים תלהט ולהב מפיו יצא׃ |
22 And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
| בצוארו ילין עז ולפניו תדוץ דאבה׃ |
23 The flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved.
| מפלי בשרו דבקו יצוק עליו בל ימוט׃ |
24 His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
| לבו יצוק כמו אבן ויצוק כפלח תחתית׃ |
25 And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.
| משתו יגורו אלים משברים יתחטאו׃ |
26 If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate.
| משיגהו חרב בלי תקום חנית מסע ושריה׃ |
27 For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.
| יחשב לתבן ברזל לעץ רקבון נחושה׃ |
28 The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass.
| לא יבריחנו בן קשת לקש נהפכו לו אבני קלע׃ |
29 Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
| כקש נחשבו תותח וישחק לרעש כידון׃ |
30 His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay.
| תחתיו חדודי חרש ירפד חרוץ עלי טיט׃ |
31 He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
| ירתיח כסיר מצולה ים ישים כמרקחה׃ |
32 and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range.
| אחריו יאיר נתיב יחשב תהום לשיבה׃ |
33 There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.
| אין על עפר משלו העשו לבלי חת׃ |
34 He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.
| את כל גבה יראה הוא מלך על כל בני שחץ׃ |
