Job 41
1 ¿Sacarás tú al Leviatán con el anzuelo; y con la cuerda que le echares en su lengua?
Can you draw out leviathan (sea serpent) with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?
2 ¿Pondrás tú garfio en sus narices; y horadarás tú con espina su quijada?
Can you put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3 ¿Multiplicará él ruegos para contigo? ¿hablarte ha él a ti lisonjas?
Will he make many supplications unto you? will he speak soft words unto you?
4 ¿Hará concierto contigo para que le tomes por siervo perpetuo?
Will he make a covenant with you? will you take him for a servant for ever?
5 ¿Jugarás tú con él, como con pájaro? ¿y atarle has para tus niñas?
Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your maidens?
6 ¿Harán banquete por causa de él los compañeros? ¿partirle han entre los mercaderes?
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7 ¿Cortarás tú con cuchillo su cuero, y con francado de pescadores su cabeza?
Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8 Pon tu mano sobre él: acordarte has de la batalla, y nunca más tornarás.
Lay your hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
9 He aquí que tu esperanza será burlada; por que aun a su sola vista se desmayarán.
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 Nadie hay tan osado que le despierte: ¿quién pues podrá estar delante de mí?
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
11 ¿Quién me previno para que yo se lo agradezca? todo lo que está debajo del cielo es mío.
Who has prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12 Y no callaré sus miembros, y la cosa de sus fuerzas, y la gracia de su disposición.
I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13 ¿Quién descubrirá la delantera de su vestidura? ¿quién se llegará a él con freno doble?
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
14 ¿Quién abrirá las puertas de su rostro? Los ordenes de sus dientes espantan.
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
15 La gloria de su vestido es escudos fuertes, cerrados entre sí estrechamente.
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16 El uno se junta con el otro, que viento no entra entre ellos.
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17 El uno está pegado con el otro, están trabados entre sí, que no se pueden apartar.
They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18 Con sus estornudos enciende lumbre; y sus ojos son como los párpados del alba.
By his exhaling a light does shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 De su boca salen hachas de fuego, y proceden centellas de fuego.
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20 De sus narices sale humo, como de una olla, o caldero que hierve.
Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21 Su aliento enciende los carbones, y de su boca sale llama.
His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
22 En su cerviz mora la fortaleza, y delante de él es deshecho el trabajo.
In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
23 Las partes de su carne están pegadas entre sí: está firme su carne en él, y no se mueve.
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24 Su corazón es firme como una piedra, y fuerte como la muela de debajo.
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
25 De su grandeza tienen temor los fuertes, y de sus desmayos se purgan.
When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26 Cuando alguno le alcanzare, ni espada, ni lanza, ni dardo, ni coselete, durará contra él.
The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the armour of jacket.
27 El hierro estima por pajas, y el acero por leño podrido.
He esteems iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28 Saeta no le hace huir: las piedras de honda se le tornan armas.
The arrow cannot make him flee: sling stones are turned with him into stubble.
29 Toda arma tiene por hojarascas, y del blandeamiento de la pica se burla,
Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.
30 Por debajo tiene agudas conchas: imprime su agudez en el suelo.
Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31 Hace hervir como una olla la profunda mar; y tórnala como una olla de ungüento.
He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 En pos de sí hace resplandecer la senda, que parece que la mar es cana.
He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
33 No hay sobre la tierra su semejante, hecho para nada temer.
Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34 Menosprecia toda cosa alta, es rey sobre todos los soberbios.
He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
