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Job 41

World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible

41:1
“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook,
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
41:2
Can you put a rope into his nose,
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
41:3
Will he make many petitions to you,
Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
41:4
Will he make a covenant with you,
Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
41:5
Will you play with him as with a bird?
Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
41:6
Will traders barter for him?
Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
41:7
Can you fill his skin with barbed irons,
Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
41:8
Lay your hand on him.
If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
41:9
Behold, the hope of him is in vain.
Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
41:10
None is so fierce that he dare stir him up.
No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
41:11
Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Who has given to Me that I should repay him (note: Cited in Romans 11:35)? Everything under heaven is Mine.
41:12
“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
41:13
Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
41:14
Who can open the doors of his face?
Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
41:15
Strong scales are his pride,
His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
41:16
One is so near to another,
One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
41:17
They are joined to one another.
They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
41:18
His sneezing flashes out light.
His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
41:19
Out of his mouth go burning torches.
Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
41:20
Out of his nostrils a smoke goes,
Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
41:21
His breath kindles coals.
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
41:22
There is strength in his neck.
Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
41:23
The flakes of his flesh are joined together.
The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
41:24
His heart is as firm as a stone,
His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
41:25
When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid.
When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
41:26
If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail;
The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
41:27
He counts iron as straw,
He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
41:28
The arrow can’t make him flee.
No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
41:29
Clubs are counted as stubble.
A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance (note: Or javelin).
41:30
His undersides are like sharp potsherds,
His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
41:31
He makes the deep to boil like a pot.
He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
41:32
He makes a path shine after him.
He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
41:33
On earth there is not his equal,
Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!
41:34
He sees everything that is high.
He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”