Job 41
1 Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or tie up his jaws with a cord?
Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?
2 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3 Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak soft words to you?
Will he make many supplications to thee? will he speak soft [words] to thee?
4 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
5 Will you play with him as you would with a bird? Will you tie him up for your servant girls?
Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6 Will the groups of fishermen bargain for him? Will they divide him up to trade among the merchants?
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants.
7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8 Put your hand on him just once, and you will remember the battle and do it no more.
Lay thy hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
9 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?
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 None is so fierce that he dare stir Leviathan up; who, then, is he who can stand before me?
None [is so] fierce that he dare rouse him: who then is able to stand before me?
11 Who has first given anything to me in order that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole sky is mine.
Who hath first benefited me, that I should repay [him]? [whatever is] under the whole heaven is mine.
12 I will not keep silent concerning Leviathan's legs, nor about the matter of his strength, nor about his graceful form.
I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13 Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double armor?
Who can discover the face of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face— ringed with his teeth, which are a terror?
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible around.
15 his back is made up of rows of shields, tight together as with a close seal.
[His] scales [are his] pride, shut together [as with] a close seal.
16 One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17 They are joined to each other; they stick together, so that they cannot be pulled apart.
They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18 Light flashes out from his snorting; his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning dawn.
His sneezings flash light, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Out of his mouth go burning torches, sparks of fire leap out.
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire dart forth.
20 Out of his nostrils goes smoke like a boiling pot on a fire that has been fanned to be very hot.
Out of his nostrils issueth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or caldron.
21 His breath kindles coals into flame; fires go out from his mouth.
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame issueth from his mouth.
22 In his neck is strength, and terror dances in front of him.
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are joined together; they are firm on him; they cannot be moved.
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24 His heart is as hard as a stone— indeed, as hard as a lower millstone.
His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone].
25 When he raises himself up, even the gods become afraid; because of fear, they draw back.
When he raiseth himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26 If a sword strikes him, it does nothing— and neither does a spear, an arrow, or any other pointed weapon.
The sword of him that attacketh him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27 He thinks of iron as if it were straw, and of bronze as if it were rotten wood.
He esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood.
28 An arrow cannot make him flee; to him sling stones become chaff.
The arrow cannot make him flee: sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.
29 Clubs are regarded as straw; he laughs at the whirring flight of a spear.
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
30 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.
Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31 He makes the deep to foam up like a pot of boiling water; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He makes a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had gray hair.
He maketh a path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary.
33 On earth there is no equal to him, who has been made to live without fear.
Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34 He sees everything that is proud; he is king over all the sons of pride.”
He beholdeth all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride.
