Job 41
1 “Do you draw leviathan with a hook? And do you let down his tongue with a rope?
Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or tie up his jaws with a cord?
2 Do you put a reed in his nose? And pierce his jaw with a thorn?
Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
3 Does he multiply supplications to you? Does he speak tender things to you?
Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak soft words to you?
4 Does he make a covenant with you? Do you take him for a perpetual servant?
Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
5 Do you play with him as a bird? And do you bind him for your girls?
Will you play with him as you would with a bird? Will you tie him up for your servant girls?
6 (Companions feast on him, They divide him among the merchants!)
Will the groups of fishermen bargain for him? Will they divide him up to trade among the merchants?
7 Do you fill his skin with barbed irons? And his head with fish-spears?
Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 Place your hand on him, Remember the battle—do not add!
Put your hand on him just once, and you will remember the battle and do it no more.
9 Behold, the hope of him is found a liar, Also, is one not cast down at his appearance?
See, the hope of anyone who does that is a lie; will not anyone be thrown down to the ground just by the sight of him?
10 None so fierce that he awakes him, And who [is] he [who] stations himself before Me?
None is so fierce that he dare stir Leviathan up; who, then, is he who can stand before me?
11 Who has brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] Mine.
Who has first given anything to me in order that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole sky is mine.
12 I do not keep silent concerning his parts, And the matter of might, And the grace of his arrangement.
I will not keep silent concerning Leviathan's legs, nor about the matter of his strength, nor about his graceful form.
13 Who has uncovered the face of his clothing? Who enters within his double bridle?
Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double armor?
14 Who has opened the doors of his face? Around his teeth [are] terrible.
Who can open the doors of his face— ringed with his teeth, which are a terror?
15 A pride—strong ones of shields, Shut up—a close seal.
his back is made up of rows of shields, tight together as with a close seal.
16 They draw near to one another, And air does not enter between them.
One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
17 They adhere to one another, They stick together and are not separated.
They are joined to each other; they stick together, so that they cannot be pulled apart.
18 His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes [are] as the eyelids of the dawn.
Light flashes out from his snorting; his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning dawn.
19 Flames go out of his mouth, sparks of fire escape.
Out of his mouth go burning torches, sparks of fire leap out.
20 Smoke goes forth out of his nostrils, As a blown pot and reeds.
Out of his nostrils goes smoke like a boiling pot on a fire that has been fanned to be very hot.
21 His breath sets coals on fire, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
His breath kindles coals into flame; fires go out from his mouth.
22 Strength lodges in his neck, And grief exults before him.
In his neck is strength, and terror dances in front of him.
23 The flakes of his flesh have adhered—Firm on him—it is not moved.
The folds of his flesh are joined together; they are firm on him; they cannot be moved.
24 His heart [is] firm as a stone, Indeed, firm as the lower piece.
His heart is as hard as a stone— indeed, as hard as a lower millstone.
25 The mighty are afraid at his rising, From his breakings they keep themselves free.
When he raises himself up, even the gods become afraid; because of fear, they draw back.
26 The sword of his overtaker does not stand, Spear, dart, and breastplate.
If a sword strikes him, it does nothing— and neither does a spear, an arrow, or any other pointed weapon.
27 He reckons iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.
He thinks of iron as if it were straw, and of bronze as if it were rotten wood.
28 The son of the bow does not cause him to flee, Stones of the sling are turned into stubble by him.
An arrow cannot make him flee; to him sling stones become chaff.
29 Darts have been reckoned as stubble, And he laughs at the shaking of a javelin.
Clubs are regarded as straw; he laughs at the whirring flight of a spear.
30 Sharp points of clay [are] under him, He spreads gold on the mire.
His lower parts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery; he leaves a spreading trail in the mud as if he were a threshing sledge.
31 He causes the deep to boil as a pot, He makes the sea as a pot of ointment.
He makes the deep to foam up like a pot of boiling water; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He causes a path to shine after him, One thinks the deep to be hoary.
He makes a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had gray hair.
33 There is not on the earth his like, That is made without terror.
On earth there is no equal to him, who has been made to live without fear.
34 He sees every high thing, He [is] king over all sons of pride.”
He sees everything that is proud; he is king over all the sons of pride.”
