Job 41

God’s Power Shown in Creatures

1 “ ▼

▼Ch 40:25 in Heb

Can you drag out ▼

▼I.e., a sea monster or crocodile

, ^cLeviathan with a fishhook,
And press down his tongue with a rope?
2 “Can you ^dput a ▼

▼Lit rope of rushes

rope in his nose,
And pierce his jaw with a ▼

▼Or thorn; or ring

hook?
3 “Will he make many pleas to you,
Or will he speak to you gentle words?
4 “Will he make a covenant with you?
Will you take him as a servant forever?
5 “Will you play with him as with a bird,
And tie him down for your young girls?
6 “Will the ▼

▼Lit partners

traders bargain for him?
Will they divide him among the merchants?
7 “Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?
8 “Lay your hand on him.
Remember the battle; ▼

▼Lit do not add

you will not do it again!
9 “ ▼

▼Ch 41:1 in Heb

Behold, ▼

▼Lit his

your expectation is false;
Will ▼

▼Lit he

you be hurled down even at the sight of him?
10 “No one is so reckless that he dares to ^lstir him;
Who then is he who opposes Me?
11 “Who has ^mbeen first to give to Me, that I should repay him?
Whatever is ⁿunder the entire heaven is Mine.

12 “I will not be silent about his limbs,
Or his mighty strength, or his graceful frame.
13 “Who can ▼

▼Lit uncover the face of his garment

strip off his outer covering?
Who can ▼

▼Lit come into

pierce his double ▼

▼As in LXX; Heb bridle

armor?
14 “Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth there is terror.
15 “His ▼

▼Lit rows of shields

strong scales are his pride,
Locked as with a tight seal.
16 “One is so close to another
That no air can come between them.
17 “They are joined one to another;
They clasp each other and cannot be separated.
18 “His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the ^seye of dawn.
19 “From his mouth go burning torches;
Sparks of fire leap forth.
20 “From his nostrils smoke goes out
As from a boiling pot and burning reeds.
21 “His breath sets coals aglow,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
22 “In his neck dwells strength,
And dismay leaps before him.
23 “The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm and immovable on him.
24 “His heart is as firm as a stone,
And as firm as a lower millstone.
25 “When he rises up, the ▼

▼Or gods

mighty are afraid;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
26 “The sword that reaches him cannot ▼

▼Lit rise

prevail,
Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27 “He regards iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.
28 “The ▼

▼Lit son of the bow

arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are turned into stubble for him.
29 “Clubs are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.
30 “His underparts are like sharp pieces of pottery;
He ▼

▼Or moves across

spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mud.
31 “He makes the depths boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
32 “Behind him he illuminates a pathway;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired.
33 “ ^xNothing on ▼

▼Lit dust

earth is like him,
One made without fear.
34 “ ▼

▼Ch 41:26 in Heb

He looks on everything that is high;
He is king over all the ^aasons of pride.”