Job 41

1 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

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

3 Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

4 Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

5 Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

6 Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

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

8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

9 Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

10 No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

11 Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

12 I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

14 Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

15 His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

16 One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

17 They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

18 His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

19 Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

20 Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

22 Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

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

24 His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

25 When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

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

27 He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

28 No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

29 A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

31 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

32 He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

33 Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!

34 He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”

1 ¶ Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?

2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft [words] unto thee?

4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

5 Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?

10 None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

11 ¶ Who hath prevented me, that I should repay [him? whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.

12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

13 Who can discover the face of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle?

14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible round about.

15 [His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as 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, that they cannot be sundered.

18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning.

19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap out.

20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or caldron.

21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone].

25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

27 He esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood.

28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

30 Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

32 He maketh a path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary.

33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

34 He beholdeth all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride.

2 Who hath done any thing unto me before, that I should requite him? Mine is that which is under the heavens.

3 Now therefore I must say how great, how mighty, and how well made he is.

4 who can uncover his dress? And who can dare to grab him between the teeth?

5 Who can open the jaws of his face? Terrible stand his teeth about.

6 his proud scales are like solid shields, firm and tight within each other.

7 One toucheth another, that there be not a breeze between them.

8 They cleave one to another, and cleave together, that they be not divided.

9 His sneezing shineth as the light; his eyes are as the eyelids of the dawn.

10 Out of his mouth go torches, and fiery sparks shoot out.

11 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as of hot pots and kettles.

12 His breath is as light, and out of his mouth go forth flames.

13 He hath a strong neck; and his delight is in spoiling.

14 The members of his flesh cleave one to another, and cleave hard unto him, that he should not fall to pieces.

15 His heart is as hard as a stone, and as firm as a piece of the lowest millstone.

16 When he ariseth, the mighty are dismayed: and when he breaketh away, there is no mercy.

17 If a man will come to him with a sword, he will not move: or with a spear, or with a bullet, or with a breastplate.

18 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

19 No arrow shall drive him out: the sling stones are as stubble.

20 Canst thou draw the leviathan with the urine, and catch his tongue with a rope?

20 He esteemeth the hammer as stubble; he mocketh the quivering spear.

21 can you put a fishing rod up his nose and pierce his bakken with a spike?

21 Sharp stones are under him, and he passeth over the sharp rocks as over dung.

22 Thinkest thou that he will make thee much supplication, or pretend to thee?

22 He maketh the deep sea to boil like a pot, and stirreth it together, as one maketh an ointment.

23 Thinkest thou that he will make a covenant with thee, that thou shalt have him for a servant for ever?

23 after him the way shineth, he maketh the deep all gray.

24 Canst thou play with him as with a bird, or bind him to thy strumpets?

24 There is none like him in the earth: he is made to be without fear.

25 Thinkest thou that the companies will cut him up, that he may be divided among the merchants?

25 He despiseth all that is high; he is a king over all the proud.

26 Canst thou fill the net with his skin, and the fish traps with his head?

27 When thou layest thine hand upon him, remember that there is a battle which thou wilt not perform.

28 Behold, his hope shall fail him; and when he seeth it, he shall be swallowed up. Ch. 41. v. 1. there is none so bold as may provoke him; who then is he that can stand before me?