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 אגמון באפו ובחוח תקוב 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. Will not 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 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 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 to one another. They stick together, so that they cannot 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 cannot 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 cannot 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 cannot 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.”
