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1 ௧ “லிவியாதானை தூண்டிலைக்கொண்டு பிடிக்கமுடியுமோ? அதின் நாக்கை நீ விடுகிற கயிற்றினாலே பிடிக்கமுடியுமோ?
Canst thou draw out the crocodile with a fishhook? or cause his tongue to sink into the batted rope?
Canst thou put a reed through his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Will he address many supplications unto thee? or will he speak submissively unto thee?
Will he make a covenant with thee? that thou couldst take him as a servant for ever?
5 ௫ ஒரு குருவியுடன் விளையாடுகிறதுபோல், நீ அதனுடன் விளையாடி, அதை நீ உன் பெண்களுக்கு அருகில் கட்டிவைப்பாயோ?
Canst thou play with him as with a bird? and tie him up for thy maidens?
Can companions waylay him? can they divide him among merchants?
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? and [pierce] with a fish-spear his head?
Lay thy hand upon him; think of the battle: thou wilt never do it again.
Behold, his expectation was deceived: even at his mere sight is he cast down.
None is so daring that he would stir him up: and who is there that will stand up before me?
11 ௧௧ தனக்குப் பதில்கொடுக்கப்படும்படி, முந்தி எனக்குக் கொடுத்தவன் யார்? வானத்தின் கீழுள்ளவைகள் எல்லாம் என்னுடையவைகள்.
Who hath shown me favor, that I should repay him! whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.—
12 ௧௨ அதின் உறுப்புகளும், அதின் வீரியமும், அதின் உடல் இசைவின் அழகும் இன்னதென்று நான் சொல்லாமல் மறைக்கமாட்டேன்.
I will not conceal [the account of] his limbs, nor the relation of his might, nor the grace of his proportion.
13 ௧௩ அது மூடியிருக்கிற அதின் போர்வையைக் எடுக்கக்கூடியவன் யார்? அதின் இரண்டு தாடைகளின் நடுவே கடிவாளம் போடத்தக்கவன் யார்?
Who hath ever laid open the front of his garment? or who can penetrate into his double row of teeth?
Who hath opened the doors of his face? all round about his teeth abideth terror.
15 ௧௫ முத்திரைப் பதிப்புபோல அழுத்தங்கொண்டு அடர்த்தியாயிருக்கிற அதின் கேடகங்களின் அமைப்பு மகா சிறப்பாயிருக்கிறது.
What pride is there in [his] strong shields; he is locked up as with a close seal.
One is joined to another; and no breath can come between them.
They are fitted closely one to another: they are interlocked, that they cannot be severed.
From his sneezing there beameth forth a light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning-dawn.
Out of his mouth issue burning torches, sparks of fire escape [therefrom].
20 ௨0 கொதிக்கிற சட்டியிலும் கொப்பரையிலும் இருந்து புறப்படுகிறதுபோல, அதின் மூக்கிலிருந்து புகை புறப்படும்.
Out of his nostrils cometh forth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh out of his mouth.
In his neck abideth strength, and before him danceth terror joyfully.
The flakes of his flesh are fitted closely together: they are as molten metal on him, immovable.
His heart is firm like a stone: yea, as firm as the nether millstone.
At his lifting himself up the mighty are terrified: the waves also are lessened.
If one overtake him with the sword, it cannot hold; nor the spear, the dart, and armor.
He esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood.
The child of the bow cannot make him flee: into stubble are slingstones changed unto him.
Clubs are esteemed as stubble, and he laugheth at the whirring of the lance.
30 ௩0 அதின் கீழாகக் கூர்மையான கற்கள் கிடந்தாலும், அது சேற்றின்மேல் ஓடுகிறதுபோல கூர்மையான அவைகளின்மேலும் ஓடும்.
Beneath him are sharp-pointed potsherds, he spreadeth out, [as it were, a] threshing-roller upon the mire.
He causeth the deep to boil like a pot: he rendereth the sea like an apothecary's mixture.
Behind him he causeth his pathway to shine, [so that] men esteem the deep to be hoary.
There is none upon earth that ruleth over him, who is made to be without dread.
34 ௩௪ அது மேட்டிமையானதையெல்லாம் அற்பமாக நினைக்கிறது; அது அகங்காரமுள்ள உயிரினங்களுக்கெல்லாம் ராஜாவாக இருக்கிறது” என்றார்.
He looketh upon all that is high: he is the king over all the ravenous beasts.
