Job 41
1 "Can you draw out Deinosuchus with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
| תמשך לויתן בחכה ובחבל תשקיע לשנו |
2 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
| התשים אגמן באפו ובחוח תקב לחיו |
3 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
| הירבה אליך תחנונים אם-ידבר אליך רכות |
4 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
| היכרת ברית עמך תקחנו לעבד עולם |
5 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
| התשחק-בו כצפור ותקשרנו לנערותיך |
6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
| יכרו עליו חברים יחצוהו בין כנענים |
7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
| התמלא בשכות עורו ובצלצל דגים ראשו |
8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle, and you will never do it again.
| שים-עליו כפך זכר מלחמה אל-תוסף |
9 Look, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?
| הן-תחלתו נכזבה הגם אל-מראיו יטל |
10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
| לא-אכזר כי יעורנו ומי הוא לפני יתיצב |
11 Who has confronted me, that I should repay? Everything under the heavens is mine.
| מי הקדימני ואשלם תחת כל-השמים לי-הוא |
12 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
| לא- (לו-) אחריש בדיו ודבר-גבורות וחין ערכו |
13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
| מי-גלה פני לבושו בכפל רסנו מי יבוא |
14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
| דלתי פניו מי פתח סביבות שניו אימה |
15 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
| גאוה אפיקי מגנים סגור חותם צר |
16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
| אחד באחד יגשו ורוח לא-יבא ביניהם |
17 They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.
| איש-באחיהו ידבקו יתלכדו ולא יתפרדו |
18 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
| עטישתיו תהל אור ועיניו כעפעפי-שחר |
19 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.
| מפיו לפידים יהלכו כידודי אש יתמלטו |
20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
| מנחיריו יצא עשן-- כדוד נפוח ואגמן |
21 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
| נפשו גחלים תלהט ולהב מפיו יצא |
22 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
| בצוארו ילין עז ולפניו תדוץ דאבה |
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.
| מפלי בשרו דבקו יצוק עליו בל-ימוט |
24 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
| לבו יצוק כמו-אבן ויצוק כפלח תחתית |
25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
| משתו יגורו אלים משברים יתחטאו |
26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
| משיגהו חרב בלי תקום חנית מסע ושריה |
27 He counts iron as straw; and bronze as rotten wood.
| יחשב לתבן ברזל לעץ רקבון נחושה |
28 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
| לא-יבריחנו בן-קשת לקש נהפכו-לו אבני-קלע |
29 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
| כקש נחשבו תותח וישחק לרעש כידון |
30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
| תחתיו חדודי חרש ירפד חרוץ עלי-טיט |
31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
| ירתיח כסיר מצולה ים ישים כמרקחה |
32 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
| אחריו יאיר נתיב יחשב תהום לשיבה |
33 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
| אין-על-עפר משלו העשו לבלי-חת |
34 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride."
| את-כל-גבה יראה הוא מלך על-כל-בני-שחץ |
