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Job 41

The Message Bible MSG

1 Or can you pull in the sea beast, Leviathan, with a fly rod and stuff him in your creel?

2 Can you lasso him with a rope, or snag him with an anchor?

3 Will he beg you over and over for mercy, or flatter you with flowery speech?

4 Will he apply for a job with you to run errands and serve you the rest of your life?

5 Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish? Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children?

6 Will you put him on display in the market and have shoppers haggle over the price?

7 Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion, or drive harpoons into his huge head?

8 If you so much as lay a hand on him, you won't live to tell the story.

9 What hope would you have with such a creature? Why, one look at him would do you in!

10 If you can't hold your own against his glowering visage, how, then, do you expect to stand up to me?

11 Who could confront me and get by with it? I'm in charge of all this - I run this universe!

12 "But I've more to say about Leviathan, the sea beast, his enormous bulk, his beautiful shape.

13 Who would even dream of piercing that tough skin or putting those jaws into bit and bridle?

14 And who would dare knock at the door of his mouth filled with row upon row of fierce teeth?

15 His pride is invincible; nothing can make a dent in that pride.

16 Nothing can get through that proud skin - impervious to weapons and weather,

17 The thickest and toughest of hides, impenetrable!

18 "He snorts and the world lights up with fire, he blinks and the dawn breaks.

19 Comets pour out of his mouth, fireworks arc and branch.

20 Smoke erupts from his nostrils like steam from a boiling pot.

21 He blows and fires blaze; flames of fire stream from his mouth.

22 All muscle he is - sheer and seamless muscle. To meet him is to dance with death.

23 Sinewy and lithe, there's not a soft spot in his entire body -

24 As tough inside as out, rock-hard, invulnerable.

25 Even angels run for cover when he surfaces, cowering before his tail-thrashing turbulence.

26 Javelins bounce harmlessly off his hide, harpoons ricochet wildly.

27 Iron bars are so much straw to him, bronze weapons beneath notice.

28 Arrows don't even make him blink; bullets make no more impression than raindrops.

29 A battle ax is nothing but a splinter of kindling; he treats a brandished harpoon as a joke.

30 His belly is armor-plated, inexorable - unstoppable as a barge.

31 He roils deep ocean the way you'd boil water, he whips the sea like you'd whip an egg into batter.

32 With a luminous trail stretching out behind him, you might think Ocean had grown a gray beard!

33 There's nothing on this earth quite like him, not an ounce of fear in that creature!

34 He surveys all the high and mighty - king of the ocean, king of the deep!"

World English Bible WEB

1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

2 Can you put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

3 Will he make many petitions to you? Or will he speak soft words to you?

4 Will he make a covenant with you, That you should take him for a servant forever?

5 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?

7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears?

8 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

12 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

15 Strong scales are his pride, Shut up together with a close seal.

16 One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.

17 They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.

18 His sneezing flashes forth light, His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

19 Out of his mouth go burning torches, Sparks of fire leap forth.

20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, As of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

21 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

22 In his neck there is strength. Terror dances before him.

23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.

24 His heart is as firm as a stone, Yes, firm as the lower millstone.

25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

26 If one lay at him with the sword, it can't avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

27 He counts iron as straw; And brass as rotten wood.

28 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

29 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, Leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

32 He makes a path to shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

33 On earth there is not his equal, That is made without fear.

34 He sees everything that is high: He is king over all the sons of pride."