| Job 41:1 |
Can you draw out leviathan with a hook, / Or press down his tongue with a cord? |
| Job 41:2 |
Can you put a rope in his nose, / Or pierce his jaw with a hook? |
| Job 41:3 |
Will he make many supplications unto you, / Or speak soft words to you? |
| Job 41:4 |
Will he make a covenant with you / That you would take him as a servant forever? |
| Job 41:5 |
Will you play with him as with a bird, / Or bind him for your maidens? |
| Job 41:6 |
Will the traders bargain over him? / Will they divide him up among merchants? |
| Job 41:7 |
Can you fill his skin with harpoons, / Or his head with fishing spears? |
| Job 41:8 |
Lay your hand on him, / [And] remember the battle--you will never do it again! |
| Job 41:9 |
Indeed, any hope for him is vain; / Will not one be even cast down at the sight of him? |
| Job 41:10 |
No one is so fierce as to stir him up; / Who then is he who would stand before Me? |
| Job 41:11 |
Who has first given to Me that I should repay [him?] / [Whatever] is under the whole heaven is Mine. |
| Job 41:12 |
I will not be silent about his limbs / Or about the account of his mighty deeds or about the beauty of his frame. |
| Job 41:13 |
Who can strip off his outer garment? / Who can go within his double jaws? |
| Job 41:14 |
Who can open the doors of his face? / Around his teeth is terror. |
| Job 41:15 |
[His] pride is [his] rows of scales, / Shut up [as with] a tight seal. |
| Job 41:16 |
One is so near the other / That the air cannot pass between them. |
| Job 41:17 |
Each is joined to the other; / They stick together and cannot be separated. |
| Job 41:18 |
His sneezes flash forth light, / And his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. |
| Job 41:19 |
Out of his mouth go forth flaming torches; / Sparks of fire leap out. |
| Job 41:20 |
Out of his nostrils comes smoke, / As from a boiling pot and [burning] rushes. |
| Job 41:21 |
His breath kindles coals, / And a flame comes from his mouth. |
| Job 41:22 |
In his neck abides strength, / And terror dances before him. |
| Job 41:23 |
The folds of his flesh are joined together; / They are firm upon him [and] immovable. |
| Job 41:24 |
His heart is as firm as stone, / Indeed as firm as the lower millstone. |
| Job 41:25 |
At his rising up, the mighty fear; / They are beside themselves with consternation. |
| Job 41:26 |
The sword that reaches him cannot avail, / Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin. |
| Job 41:27 |
He considers iron [shafts] as straw, / And bronze [ones] as rotted wood. |
| Job 41:28 |
The arrow does not make him flee; / With him slingstones turn to stubble. |
| Job 41:29 |
Clubs are considered as stubble; / He laughs at the quivering javelin. |
| Job 41:30 |
His underparts are [like] sharp potsherds; / He spreads himself [like] a threshing sledge upon the mire. |
| Job 41:31 |
He makes the deep boil like a cauldron; / He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. |
| Job 41:32 |
Behind him he makes a shining wake; / One would think the deep to be white-haired. |
| Job 41:33 |
On earth there is none his equal, / Who is made without fear. |
| Job 41:34 |
He beholds everything that is high; / He is king over all the sons of pride. |