< Job 41 >
1 Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down — his tongue?
Will you draw out? Leviathan with a fish hook and with a cord will you hold down? tongue its.
2 Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw?
¿ Will you put a cord in nose its and with a hook will you pierce? jaw its.
3 Doth he multiply unto thee supplications? Doth he speak unto thee tender things?
¿ Will it multiply to you supplications or? will it speak to you soft [words].
4 Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?
¿ Will it make a covenant with you will you take? it to a slave of perpetuity.
5 Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels?
¿ Will you play with it like bird and will you bind? it for girls your.
6 (Feast upon him do companions, They divide him among the merchants!)
Will they bargain? on it partners will they divide? it between merchants.
7 Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with fish-spears his head?
¿ Will you fill with harpoons hide its and with a spear of fish head its.
8 Place on him thy hand, Remember the battle — do not add!
Put on it hands your remember [the] battle may not you repeat.
9 Lo, the hope of him is found a liar, Also at his appearance is not one cast down?
There! hope his it is proved a lie ¿ also because of appearance its everyone is thrown down.
10 None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who [is] he before Me stationeth himself?
Not fierce that he will rouse it and who? that before me will he take his stand.
11 Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] mine.
Who? has he confronted me and I may repay under all the heavens [belongs] to me it.
12 I do not keep silent concerning his parts, And the matter of might, And the grace of his arrangement.
(To it *Q(K)*) I will keep silent limbs its and [the] matter of strength and [the] grace of arrangement its.
13 Who hath uncovered the face of his clothing? Within his double bridle who doth enter?
Who? has he uncovered [the] surface of clothing its in [the] doubling of halter its who? will he come.
14 The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth [are] terrible.
[the] doors of Face its who? has he opened [is] around teeth its terror.
15 A pride — strong ones of shields, Shut up — a close seal.
Pride [is] rows of shields shut up a seal tight.
16 One unto another they draw nigh, And air doth not enter between them.
One on one they draw near and a breath not it goes between them.
17 One unto another they adhere, They stick together and are not separated.
Each on brother its they are joined together they grasp one another and not they are separated.
18 His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes [are] as the eyelids of the dawn.
Sneezing its it flashes forth light and eyes its [are] like [the] eyelids of dawn.
19 Out of his mouth do flames go, sparks of fire escape.
From mouth its torches they go sparks of fire they escape.
20 Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, As a blown pot and reeds.
From nostrils its it goes forth smoke like a pot blown upon and bulrush[es].
21 His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth.
Breath its coals it kindles and a flame from mouth its it goes forth.
22 In his neck lodge doth strength, And before him doth grief exult.
In neck its it lodges strength and before it it leaps dismay.
23 The flakes of his flesh have adhered — Firm upon him — it is not moved.
[the] hanging parts of Flesh its they cling hard to it not it is moved.
24 His heart [is] firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the lower piece.
Heart its [is] hard like a stone and hard like a mill-stone lower.
25 From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free.
From uprising its they are afraid mighty ones from crashing they are bewildered.
26 The sword of his overtaker standeth not, Spear — dart — and lance.
[one who] reaches It a sword not it is established a spear a dart and a javelin.
27 He reckoneth iron as straw, brass as rotten wood.
It considers to straw iron to wood of rottenness bronze.
28 The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by him into stubble are stones of the sling.
Not it makes flee it [the] son of a bow into chaff they are changed for it stones of a sling.
29 As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.
Like chaff they are regarded a club so it may laugh to [the] shaking of a javelin.
30 Under him [are] sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.
Under it [are] sharp points of potsherd[s] it spreads out a threshing sledge on mud.
31 He causeth to boil as a pot the deep, The sea he maketh as a pot of ointment.
It makes boil like pot [the] deep [the] sea it makes like pot of ointment.
32 After him he causeth a path to shine, One thinketh the deep to be hoary.
Behind it it makes shine a path anyone considers [the] deep to grey hair.
33 There is not on the earth his like, That is made without terror.
Not [is] on [the] dust likeness its the [one] made for not fear.
34 Every high thing he doth see, He [is] king over all sons of pride.
Every exalted [one] it sees it [is] king over all [the] sons of pride.