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Job 41

Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha CEBA

1 Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, restrain his tongue with a rope?

2 Can you put a cord through his nose, pierce his jaw with a barb?

3 Will he beg you at length or speak gentle words to you?

4 Will he make a pact with you so that you will take him as a permanent slave?

5 Can you play with him like a bird, put a leash on him for your girls?

6 Will merchants sell him; will they divide him among traders?

7 Can you fill his hide with darts, his head with a fishing spear?

8 Should you lay your hand on him, you would never remember the battle.

9 Such hopes would be delusional; surely the sight of him makes one stumble.

10 Nobody is fierce enough to rouse him; who then can stand before me?

11 Who opposes me that I must repay? Everything under heaven is mine.

12 I'm not awed by his limbs, his strength, and impressive form.

13 Who can remove his outer garment; who can come with a bridle for him?

14 Who can open the doors of his mouth, surrounded by frightening teeth?

15 His matching scales are his pride, closely locked and sealed.

16 One touches another; even air can't come between them.

17 Each clings to its pair; joined, they can't be separated.

18 His sneezes emit flashes of light; his eyes are like dawn's rays.

19 Shafts of fire shoot from his mouth; like fiery sparks they fly out.

20 Smoke pours from his nostrils like a boiling pot over reeds.

21 His breath lights coals; a flame shoots from his mouth.

22 Power resides in his neck; violence dances before him.

23 The folds of his flesh stick together; on him they are tough and unyielding.

24 His heart is solid like a rock, hard like a lower millstone.

25 The divine beings dread his rising; they withdraw before his thrashing.

26 The sword that touches him won't prevail; neither will the dart, spear, nor javelin.

27 He treats iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

28 Arrows can't make him flee; slingstones he turns to straw.

29 He treats a club like straw; he laughs at the lance's rattle.

30 His abdomen is like jagged pottery shards; its sharp edges leave a trail in the mud.

31 He causes the depths to churn like a boiling pot, stirs up the sea like a pot of scented oils,

32 leaves a bright wake behind him; the frothy deep seems white-haired.

33 None on earth can compare to him; he is made to be without fear.

34 He looks on all the proud; he is king over all proud beasts.

New International Version NIV

1 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?

2 Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?

3 Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?

4 Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?

5 Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?

6 Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

8 If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!

9 Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.

10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?

11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.

12 “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs, its strength and its graceful form.

13 Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor ?

14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?

15 Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;

16 each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.

17 They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.

18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.

19 Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.

20 Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

21 Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.

22 Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.

23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

24 Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.

26 The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.

27 Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.

28 Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.

29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.

32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.

33 Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.

34 It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud.”