Job - Chapter 41 | New International Version

  • 1. Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook 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 keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?
  • 4. Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?
  • 5. Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
  • 6. Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up 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 struggle and never do it again!
  • 9. Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
  • 10. No one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
  • 11. Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
  • 12. I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.
  • 13. Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?
  • 14. Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
  • 15. His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
  • 16. each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
  • 17. They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
  • 18. His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
  • 19. Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
  • 20. Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
  • 21. His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
  • 22. Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.
  • 23. The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
  • 24. His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
  • 25. When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
  • 26. The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
  • 27. Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
  • 28. Arrows do not make him flee; slingstones are like chaff to him.
  • 29. A club seems to him but a piece of straw; he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
  • 30. His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
  • 31. He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
  • 32. Behind him he leaves a glistening wake; one would think the deep had white hair.
  • 33. Nothing on earth is his equal-- a creature without fear.
  • 34. He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud."
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