Job 41
1 ▼▼Job 41:1–34 in the English Bible is 40:25–41:26 in the Hebrew Bible
“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?Or ▼
▼Hebrew “And”
⌞can you tie down its mouth with a cord⌟? ▼▼Literally “with a cord can you press down its tongue”
2Can you put a rope in its nose?
Or ▼
▼Hebrew “And”
can you pierce its jawbone with a hook? 3Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you?
Or will it speak gentle words to you?
4Will it make a covenant with you?
Will you take it as a slave forever?
5Will you play with it as with birds
and put it on a leash for your girls?
6Will guildsmen bargain over it?
Will they divide it between tradesmen?
7Can you fill its kin with harpoons
or ▼
▼Hebrew “and”
its head with fish spears? 8Lay your hands on it;
think about the battle—you will not do it again!
9“Look, ⌞the hope of capturing it⌟ ▼
▼Literally “its hope”
is false.Will one be hurled down even at its sight?
10Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it?
Who then is he who would stand ⌞before it⌟? ▼
▼Or “Who is he thenwho could stand before me?”; literally “to the face of me”
11Who has come to confront me, that ▼
▼Hebrew “and”
I should repay him?Under all the heavens, ⌞it belongs to me⌟. ▼
▼Literally “to me”
12“I will not keep quiet concerning its limbs
or ▼
▼Hebrew “and”
concerning the extent of its might and the gracefulness of its frame. 13Who can strip off ⌞its outer covering⌟? ▼
▼Literally “the surface of its garment”
Who can penetrate its double harness?
14Who can open the doors of its face?
Its teeth all around are fearsome.
15Its back ▼
▼LXX; or “pride”
has scales of shields;it is shut up closely as with a seal.
16They are close ⌞to one another⌟— ▼
▼Literally “one to one”
even ▼
▼Hebrew “and”
the air cannot come between them. 17They are joined ⌞one to another⌟; ▼
▼Literally “a man to his brother”
they cling together and cannot be separated.
18“Its snorting flashes forth light,
and its eyes are ⌞red like dawn⌟. ▼
▼Literally “like eyelids of dawn”
19Torches go from its mouth;
sparks of fire shoot out.
20Smoke comes from its nostrils
as from a kettle boiling and burning bulrushes.
21Its breath kindles charcoal,
and a flame comes from its mouth.
22“Strength abides in its neck,
and dismay ▼
▼Or “strength”
dances ⌞before it⌟. ▼▼Literally “to the face of him/it”
23Its flesh’s folds of skin cling together;
it is cast on it—it will not be moved.
24Its heart is cast as stone;
yes, ▼
▼Hebrew “and”
it is cast as the lower millstone. 25⌞When it raises itself⌟, ▼
▼Literally “From his/its rising up”
the mighty ones are terrified;they retreat because of its thrashing.
26Reaching it with the sword does not avail,
nor with the spear, the dart, or ▼
▼Hebrew “and”
the javelin. 27It regards iron as straw,
bronze as rotten wood.
28⌞An arrow⌟ ▼
▼Literally “A son of a bow”
will not make it flee;sling stones are turned to stubble for it.
29Clubs are regarded as stubble,
and it laughs at the short sword’s rattle.
30“Its underparts are shards of a potsherd;
it moves over mud like a threshing sledge.
31It makes the deep boil like a cooking pot;
it makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32Behind it, ⌞it leaves a glistening wake⌟; ▼
▼Literally “it lights up the path”
one would think that the deep has gray hair.
33“⌞On the ground it has no equal⌟ ▼
▼Literally “There is not on the ground its likeness”
—a ▼
▼Hebrew “the”
creature without fear. 34It observes all the lofty;
it is king ⌞over all that are proud⌟.” ▼
▼Literally “over all sons of pride”
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