Job 41
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Berean Standard Bible
1(40-25) Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord?
1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2(40-26) Canst thou put a ring into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a hook?
2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3(40-27) Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak soft words unto thee?
3Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
4(40-28) Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?
4Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
5(40-29) Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
5Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
6(40-30) Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him? Will they part him among the merchants?
6Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
7(40-31) Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears?
7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8(40-32) Lay thy hand upon him; think upon the battle, thou wilt do so no more.
8If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
9(41-1) Behold, the hope of him is in vain; shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
9Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
10(41-2) None is so fierce that dare stir him up; who then is able to stand before Me?
10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
11(41-3) Who hath given Me anything beforehand, that I should repay him? Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is Mine.
11Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
12(41-4) Would I keep silence concerning his boastings, or his proud talk, or his fair array of words?
12I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
13(41-5) Who can uncover the face of his garment? Who shall come within his double bridle?
13Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
14(41-6) Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
14Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
15(41-7) His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
15His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
16(41-8) One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
16One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
17(41-9) They are joined one to another; they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
17They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
18(41-10) His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
18His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19(41-11) Out of his mouth go burning torches, and sparks of fire leap forth.
19Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
20(41-12) Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.
20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21(41-13) His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
22(41-14) In his neck abideth strength, and dismay danceth before him.
22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
23(41-15) The flakes of his flesh are joined together; they are firm upon him; they cannot be moved.
23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24(41-16) His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, firm as the nether millstone.
24His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
25(41-17) When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid; by reason of despair they are beside themselves.
25When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
26(41-18) If one lay at him with the sword, it will not hold; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
26The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
27(41-19) He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
27He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
28(41-20) The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
28No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
29(41-21) Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.
29A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
30(41-22) Sharpest potsherds are under him; he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
31(41-23) He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a seething mixture.
31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
32(41-24) He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
32He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
33(41-25) Upon earth there is not his like, who is made to be fearless.
33Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!
34(41-26) He looketh at all high things; he is king over all the proud beasts.
34He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”
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