איוב 41
| תמשך לויתן בחכה ובחבל תשקיע לשנו׃ | 1 |
Can thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
| התשים אגמון באפו ובחוח תקוב לחיו׃ | 2 |
Can thou 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 supplications to thee? Or will he speak soft words to thee?
| היכרת ברית עמך תקחנו לעבד עולם׃ | 4 |
Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou should take him for a servant forever?
| התשחק בו כצפור ותקשרנו לנערותיך׃ | 5 |
Will thou play with him as with a bird? Or will thou bind him for thy maidens?
| יכרו עליו חברים יחצוהו בין כנענים׃ | 6 |
Will the bands make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants?
| התמלא בשכות עורו ובצלצל דגים ראשו׃ | 7 |
Can thou fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish-spears?
| שים עליו כפך זכר מלחמה אל תוסף׃ | 8 |
Lay thy hand upon 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. Will not a man 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? Under the whole heaven is mine.
| לא 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 shall come within his jaws?
| דלתי פניו מי פתח סביבות שניו אימה׃ | 14 |
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
| גאוה אפיקי מגנים סגור חותם צר׃ | 15 |
His strong scales are his pride, shut up together like a close seal.
| אחד באחד יגשו ורוח לא יבוא 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 one to another. They stick together, so that they cannot be parted.
| עטישתיו תהל אור ועיניו כעפעפי שחר׃ | 18 |
His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
| מפיו לפידים יהלכו כידודי אש יתמלטו׃ | 19 |
Out of his mouth go burning torches, and sparks of fire leap forth.
| מנחיריו יצא עשן כדוד נפוח ואגמן׃ | 20 |
Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot and burning rushes.
| נפשו גחלים תלהט ולהב מפיו יצא׃ | 21 |
His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes forth from his mouth.
| בצוארו ילין עז ולפניו תדוץ דאבה׃ | 22 |
In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.
| מפלי בשרו דבקו יצוק עליו בל ימוט׃ | 23 |
The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm upon him. They cannot be moved.
| לבו יצוק כמו אבן ויצוק כפלח תחתית׃ | 24 |
His heart is as firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the nether millstone.
| משתו יגורו אלים משברים יתחטאו׃ | 25 |
When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid. Because of consternation they are beside themselves.
| משיגהו חרב בלי תקום חנית מסע ושריה׃ | 26 |
If a man lays at him with the sword it cannot avail, nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
| יחשב לתבן ברזל לעץ רקבון נחושה׃ | 27 |
He counts iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
| לא יבריחנו בן קשת לקש נהפכו לו אבני קלע׃ | 28 |
The arrow cannot make him flee. Sling-stones are turned into stubble with 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 underparts are like sharp potsherds. He spreads out as a threshing-wagon upon the mire.
| 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 to shine after him. A man would think the deep to be hoary.
| אין על עפר משלו העשו לבלי חת׃ | 33 |
Upon earth there is not his like who is made without fear.
| את כל גבה יראה הוא מלך על כל בני שחץ׃ | 34 |
He beholds everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.
