איוב 41
| תמשך לויתן בחכה ובחבל תשקיע לשנו | 1 |
“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
| התשים אגמן באפו ובחוח תקב לחיו | 2 |
Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
| הירבה אליך תחנונים אם-ידבר אליך רכות | 3 |
Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
| היכרת ברית עמך תקחנו לעבד עולם | 4 |
Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
| התשחק-בו כצפור ותקשרנו לנערותיך | 5 |
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
| יכרו עליו חברים יחצוהו בין כנענים | 6 |
Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
| התמלא בשכות עורו ובצלצל דגים ראשו | 7 |
Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
| שים-עליו כפך זכר מלחמה אל-תוסף | 8 |
Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
| הן-תחלתו נכזבה הגם אל-מראיו יטל | 9 |
Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?
| לא-אכזר כי יעורנו ומי הוא לפני יתיצב | 10 |
None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
| מי הקדימני ואשלם תחת כל-השמים לי-הוא | 11 |
Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
| לא- (לו-) אחריש בדיו ודבר-גבורות וחין ערכו | 12 |
“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
| מי-גלה פני לבושו בכפל רסנו מי יבוא | 13 |
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?
| דלתי פניו מי פתח סביבות שניו אימה | 14 |
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
| גאוה אפיקי מגנים סגור חותם צר | 15 |
Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
| אחד באחד יגשו ורוח לא-יבא ביניהם | 16 |
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
| איש-באחיהו ידבקו יתלכדו ולא יתפרדו | 17 |
They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.
| עטישתיו תהל אור ועיניו כעפעפי-שחר | 18 |
His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
| מפיו לפידים יהלכו כידודי אש יתמלטו | 19 |
Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.
| מנחיריו יצא עשן-- כדוד נפוח ואגמן | 20 |
Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
| נפשו גחלים תלהט ולהב מפיו יצא | 21 |
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.
| בצוארו ילין עז ולפניו תדוץ דאבה | 22 |
There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
| מפלי בשרו דבקו יצוק עליו בל-ימוט | 23 |
The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.
| לבו יצוק כמו-אבן ויצוק כפלח תחתית | 24 |
His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
| משתו יגורו אלים משברים יתחטאו | 25 |
When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
| משיגהו חרב בלי תקום חנית מסע ושריה | 26 |
If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
| יחשב לתבן ברזל לעץ רקבון נחושה | 27 |
He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
| לא-יבריחנו בן-קשת לקש נהפכו-לו אבני-קלע | 28 |
The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
| כקש נחשבו תותח וישחק לרעש כידון | 29 |
Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
| תחתיו חדודי חרש ירפד חרוץ עלי-טיט | 30 |
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
| ירתיח כסיר מצולה ים ישים כמרקחה | 31 |
He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
| אחריו יאיר נתיב יחשב תהום לשיבה | 32 |
He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
| אין-על-עפר משלו העשו לבלי-חת | 33 |
On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
| את-כל-גבה יראה הוא מלך על-כל-בני-שחץ | 34 |
He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”
