Job - Chapter 41 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Can you catch Leviathan with a fishhook or tie his tongue down with a rope?
  • 2. Can you put a rope through his snout or put a hook through his jaws?
  • 3. Will he beg you to let him go? Will he plead with you for mercy?
  • 4. Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?
  • 5. Will you tie him like a pet bird, like something to amuse your servant women?
  • 6. Will fishermen bargain over him? Will merchants cut him up to sell?
  • 7. Can you fill his hide with fishing spears or pierce his head with a harpoon?
  • 8. Touch him once and you'll never try it again; you'll never forget the fight!
  • 9. Anyone who sees Leviathan loses courage and falls to the ground.
  • 10. When he is aroused, he is fierce; no one would dare to stand before him.
  • 11. Who can attack him and still be safe? No one in all the world can do it.
  • 12. Let me tell you about Leviathan's legs and describe how great and strong he is.
  • 13. No one can tear off his outer coat or pierce the armor he wears.
  • 14. Who can make him open his jaws, ringed with those terrifying teeth?
  • 15. His back is made of rows of shields, fastened together and hard as stone.
  • 16. Each one is joined so tight to the next, not even a breath can come between.
  • 17. They all are fastened so firmly together that nothing can ever pull them apart.
  • 18. Light flashes when he sneezes, and his eyes glow like the rising sun.
  • 19. Flames blaze from his mouth, and streams of sparks fly out.
  • 20. Smoke comes pouring out of his nose, like smoke from weeds burning under a pot.
  • 21. His breath starts fires burning; flames leap out of his mouth.
  • 22. His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified.
  • 23. There is not a weak spot in his skin; it is as hard and unyielding as iron.
  • 24. His stony heart is without fear, as unyielding and hard as a millstone.
  • 25. When he rises up, even the strongest are frightened; they are helpless with fear.
  • 26. There is no sword that can wound him; no spear or arrow or lance that can harm him.
  • 27. For him iron is as flimsy as straw, and bronze as soft as rotten wood.
  • 28. There is no arrow that can make him run; rocks thrown at him are like bits of straw.
  • 29. To him a club is a piece of straw, and he laughs when men throw spears.
  • 30. The scales on his belly are like jagged pieces of pottery; they tear up the muddy ground like a threshing sledge.
  • 31. He churns up the sea like boiling water and makes it bubble like a pot of oil.
  • 32. He leaves a shining path behind him and turns the sea to white foam.
  • 33. There is nothing on earth to compare with him; he is a creature that has no fear.
  • 34. He looks down on even the proudest animals; he is king of all wild beasts.
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