Job, 41

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

1. Any hope of subduing him is vain, for the mere sight of him is overpowering.

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

2. He grows so ferocious when aroused that no one dares face him.

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

3. Who has attacked him and come off unharmed? No one under the sky.

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

4. I need hardly mention his limbs, nor describe his matchless strength.

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

5. Who can strip off his outer garment and penetrate his double breastplate?

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

6. Who can dare open the gates of his mouth to confront the terrors of his rows of teeth?

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

7. Rows of scales are on his back - rows of shields that are tightly sealed.

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

8. So closely fitted are they that no space intervenes;

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

9. so closely joined that they hold fast and cannot be parted.

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

10. Light flashes forth when he sneezes; like the light of dawn are his eyes.

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

11. Flaming torches and sparks of fire flash from his mouth

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

12. Smoke comes from his nostrils, like hot steam from a boiling pot.

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

13. His mere breath sets coals afire, with the flame pouring from his mouth.

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

14. Strength is in his neck, and terror dances before him.

15. [His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal.

15. Tightly set are the folds of his flesh, firmly cast and immovable.

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

16. His heart is hard as stone, as hard as the lower millstone.

17. They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

17. When he rises up, the mighty are terrified, the waves of the sea fall back.

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

18. Should the sword reach him, it will not pierce him, nor will the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

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

19. Iron is to him no more than straw; and bronze, no more than rotten wood.

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

20. Arrows will not put him to flight; slingstones will be as wisps of hay.

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

21. Clubs are as splinters to him; he laughs at the whirring javelin.

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

22. His belly is as sharp as pottery sherds; he moves across the mire like a harrow.

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

23. He churns the depths into a seething caldron; he makes the sea fume like a burner.

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

24. Behind him he leaves a white gleaming wake, making the deep appear a hoary head of age.

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

25. He has no equal on earth: such a horrible creature he was made!

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

26. He makes all, however lofty, afraid; he is king over all the sons of pride.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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