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Job 41

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1 Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

2 Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?

3 Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

4 Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

5 Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

6 Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

7 Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?

8 Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

9 Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!

10 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

11 Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

12 I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

13 Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

14 Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

15 His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

16 One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

17 They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.

18 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

19 Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

20 Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.

21 His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

22 Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him.

23 The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved.

24 His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.

25 When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

26 The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

27 Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

28 The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

29 A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

30 Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

31 The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

32 After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.

33 On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.

34 Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.

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.”