Job 41
1 Will you draw out? Leviathan with a fish hook and with a cord will you hold down? tongue its.
“[Think also about] (crocodiles/great sea dragons). Can you catch them with a fishhook or fasten their jaws with a rope?
2 ¿ Will you put a cord in nose its and with a hook will you pierce? jaw its.
Can you put ropes through their noses [to control them] or thrust hooks through their jaws?
3 ¿ Will it multiply to you supplications or? will it speak to you soft [words].
Will they plead with you to act mercifully toward them or (use sweet talk/speak to you nicely) [in order that you will not harm them]?
4 ¿ Will it make a covenant with you will you take? it to a slave of perpetuity.
Will they make an agreement with you to work for you, to be your slaves as long as they live?
5 ¿ Will you play with it like bird and will you bind? it for girls your.
Can you cause them to become pets like you cause birds to become your pets? Can you put a leash/rope around their [necks] so that your servant girls [can play with them]?
6 Will they bargain? on it partners will they divide? it between merchants.
Will merchants try to buy them [in the market]? Will they cut them up into pieces and sell the meat?
7 ¿ Will you fill with harpoons hide its and with a spear of fish head its.
Can you pierce their skins by throwing fishing spears at them? Can you pierce their heads with a harpoon?
8 Put on it hands your remember [the] battle may not you repeat.
If you grab one of them with your hands, it will fight you in a way that you will never forget, and you will never try to do it again!
9 There! hope his it is proved a lie ¿ also because of appearance its everyone is thrown down.
It is useless to try to subdue them. Anyone who tries to subdue one of them will lose his courage.
10 Not fierce that he will rouse it and who? that before me will he take his stand.
No one dares/tries to (arouse them/cause them to be angry). So, [since I am much more powerful than they are, ] (who would dare to cause me to be angry?/no one would dare to cause me to be angry!) [RHQ]
11 Who? has he confronted me and I may repay under all the heavens [belongs] to me it.
Also, everything on the earth is mine. Therefore, no one [RHQ] is able to give anything to me and require me to pay [money] for it!
12 (To it *Q(K)*) I will keep silent limbs its and [the] matter of strength and [the] grace of arrangement its.
I will tell you about [how strong] crocodiles' legs [are] and how strong their well-formed bodies are.
13 Who? has he uncovered [the] surface of clothing its in [the] doubling of halter its who? will he come.
(Can anyone strip off their hides?/No one is able to strip off their hides.) [RHQ] (Can anyone try to put bridles on them?/No one can try to put bridles on them.) [RHQ] (OR, Can anyone pierce their very thick hides?)
14 [the] doors of Face its who? has he opened [is] around teeth its terror.
(Can anyone pry open their jaws, which have terrible teeth in them?/No one can pry open their jaws, which have terrible teeth in them!) [RHQ]
15 Pride [is] rows of shields shut up a seal tight.
They have rows of scales on their back which are as hard as a rock (OR, tightly fastened together).
16 One on one they draw near and a breath not it goes between them.
The scales are very close together, with the result that not even air can get between them.
17 Each on brother its they are joined together they grasp one another and not they are separated.
The scales are joined very closely to each other, and they cannot be separated.
18 Sneezing its it flashes forth light and eyes its [are] like [the] eyelids of dawn.
When crocodiles sneeze, [the tiny drops of water that come out of their noses] sparkle in the sunlight. Their eyes are red like the rising sun.
19 From mouth its torches they go sparks of fire they escape.
[It is as though] sparks of fire pour out of their mouths [DOU].
20 From nostrils its it goes forth smoke like a pot blown upon and bulrush[es].
Smoke pours out of their nostrils/noses like steam comes out of a pot that is put over a fire made from dry reeds.
21 Breath its coals it kindles and a flame from mouth its it goes forth.
Their breath can cause coals to blaze, and flames shoot out from their mouths.
22 In neck its it lodges strength and before it it leaps dismay.
Their necks are very strong; wherever they go, they cause people to be very afraid.
23 [the] hanging parts of Flesh its they cling hard to it not it is moved.
The folds in their flesh are very close together and are very hard/firm.
24 Heart its [is] hard like a stone and hard like a mill-stone lower.
[They are fearless, because] the inner parts of their bodies are as hard as a rock, as hard as the lower millstone [on which grain is ground].
25 From uprising its they are afraid mighty ones from crashing they are bewildered.
When they rise up, they cause [even] very strong people to be terrified. As a result, people (fall back/run away) when crocodiles thrash around.
26 [one who] reaches It a sword not it is established a spear a dart and a javelin.
[People] [PRS] cannot injure them with swords, and spears or darts or javelins cannot injure them, either.
27 It considers to straw iron to wood of rottenness bronze.
They [certainly are not afraid of weapons made of] straw or rotten wood, but [they are not even afraid of weapons made of] iron or bronze!
28 Not it makes flee it [the] son of a bow into chaff they are changed for it stones of a sling.
[Shooting] arrows [at them] does not cause them to run away. [Hurling] stones at them from a sling is like [hurling] bits of chaff at them.
29 Like chaff they are regarded a club so it may laugh to [the] shaking of a javelin.
They are not afraid of clubs [any more than they would be afraid of men throwing] bits of straw [at them], and they laugh when they hear the whirl/sound of javelins [being thrown at them].
30 Under it [are] sharp points of potsherd[s] it spreads out a threshing sledge on mud.
Their bellies are covered with scales that are as sharp as broken pieces of pottery. When they drag themselves through the mud, their bellies tear up the ground like a plow.
31 It makes boil like pot [the] deep [the] sea it makes like pot of ointment.
They stir up the water and cause it to foam [as they churn/swim through it].
32 Behind it it makes shine a path anyone considers [the] deep to grey hair.
As they go through the water, the (wakes/trails in the water behind them) glisten. People [who see it] would think that the foam in those wakes had become white hair.
33 Not [is] on [the] dust likeness its the [one] made for not fear.
There are no creatures on earth that are as fearless as crocodiles.
34 Every exalted [one] it sees it [is] king over all [the] sons of pride.
They are the proudest of all the creatures; [it is as though] they [rule like] kings over all the other wild animals.”
