| 41 | Job | ||
| 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 supplications to you? Will he speak to you soft words? | ||
| 4 | Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant for ever? | ||
| 5 | Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on leash for your maidens? | ||
| 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 hands on him; think of the battle; you will not do it again! | ||
| 9 | Behold, the hope of a man is disappointed; 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 that can stand before me? | ||
| 11 | Who has 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 can penetrate his double coat of mail? | ||
| 14 | Who can open the doors of his face? Round about 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 cleave together, firmly cast upon him and immovable. | ||
| 24 | His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the nether 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 slingstones 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 hoary. | ||
| 33 | Upon earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. | ||
| 34 | He beholds everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride." | ||
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