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Job 41

Lexham English Bible LEB

1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}?

2 Can you put a rope in its nose? Or can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?

3 Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you?

4 Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?

5 Will you play with it as [with] birds and put it on a leash for your girls?

6 Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen?

7 Can you fill its kin with harpoons or its head with fish spears?

8 Lay your hands on it; think about [the] battle--you will not do [it] again!

9 "Look, {the hope of capturing it} is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?

10 [Is] it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who [then] [is] he [who] would stand {before it}?

11 Who has come to confront me, that I should repay [him]? Under all the heavens, {it belongs to me}.

12 "I will not keep quiet [concerning] its limbs or concerning [the] extent of its might and [the] gracefulness of its frame.

13 Who can strip off {its outer covering}? Who can penetrate its double harness?

14 Who can open [the] doors of its face? Its teeth all around [are] fearsome.

15 Its back [has] scales of shields; it is shut up closely [as with] a seal.

16 They are close {to one another}-- even [the] air cannot come between them.

17 They are joined {one to another}; they cling together and cannot be separated.

18 "Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes [are] {red like dawn}.

19 Torches go from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.

20 Smoke comes from its nostrils as [from] a kettle boiling and [burning] bulrushes.

21 Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth.

22 "Strength abides in its neck, and dismay dances {before it}.

23 Its flesh's folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it--it will not be moved.

24 Its heart is cast as stone; yes, it is cast as [the] lower millstone.

25 {When it raises itself}, [the] mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.

26 Reaching it [with the] sword does not avail, [nor] [with the] spear, [the] dart, or [the] javelin.

27 It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

28 {An arrow} will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.

29 Clubs 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.

31 It makes [the] deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes [the] sea like a pot of ointment.

32 Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair.

33 "{On the ground it has no equal}-- a creature without fear.

34 It observes all [the] lofty; it [is] king {over all that are proud}."

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.”