Job - Chapter 41

Word of God (continued)

¹ "Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, Or [snare] his tongue with a line [which] you lower?

² Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook?

³ Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you?

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, Or will you leash him for your maidens?

⁶ Will [your] companions make a banquet of him? Will they apportion 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 -- Never do it again!

⁹ Indeed, [any] hope of [overcoming] him is false; Shall [one not] be overwhelmed at the sight of him?

¹⁰ No one [is so] fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against Me?

¹¹ Who has preceded Me, that I should pay [him?] Everything under heaven is Mine.

¹² "I will not conceal his limbs, His mighty power, or his graceful proportions.

¹³ Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach [him] with a double bridle?

¹⁴ Who can open the doors of his face, [With] his terrible teeth all around?

¹⁵ [His] rows of scales are [his] pride, Shut up tightly [as with] a seal;

¹⁶ One is so near another That no air can come between them;

¹⁷ They are joined one to another, They stick together and cannot be parted.

¹⁸ His sneezings flash forth light, And his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning.

¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning lights; Sparks of fire shoot out.

²⁰ Smoke goes out of his nostrils, As [from] a boiling pot and burning rushes.

²¹ His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes out of his mouth.

²² Strength dwells in his neck, And sorrow dances before him.

²³ The folds of his flesh are joined together; They are firm on him and cannot be moved.

²⁴ His heart is as hard as stone, Even as hard as the lower [millstone.]

²⁵ When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; Because of his crashings they are beside themselves.

²⁶ [Though] the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; Nor does spear, dart, or javelin.

²⁷ He regards iron as straw, [And] bronze as rotten wood.

²⁸ The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones become like stubble to him.

²⁹ Darts are regarded as straw; He laughs at the threat of javelins.

³⁰ His undersides [are] like sharp potsherds; He spreads pointed [marks] in the mire.

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

³² He leaves a shining wake behind him; [One] would think the deep had white hair.

³³ On earth there is nothing like him, Which is made without fear.

³⁴ He beholds every high [thing;] He [is] king over all the children of pride."