Job - Chapter 41 | English Standard Version

  • 1. "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?
  • 2. Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
  • 3. Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?
  • 4. Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?
  • 5. Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?
  • 6. Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
  • 7. Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
  • 8. Lay your hands on him; remember the battle--you will not do it again!
  • 9. Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him.
  • 10. No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
  • 11. Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
  • 12. "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.
  • 13. Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?
  • 14. Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
  • 15. His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.
  • 16. One is so near 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 sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
  • 19. Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.
  • 20. Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
  • 21. His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
  • 22. In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.
  • 23. The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable.
  • 24. His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.
  • 25. When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.
  • 26. Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
  • 27. He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
  • 28. The arrow cannot make him flee; for him sling stones are turned to stubble.
  • 29. Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.
  • 30. His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
  • 31. He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
  • 32. Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired.
  • 33. On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.
  • 34. He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride."
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