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Job 41
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1Have you not seen him? and have you not wondered at the things said [of him]? Do you not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?
1“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
2Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine?
2Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
3I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power [one] shall pity his antagonist.
3Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
4Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?
4Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
5Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.
5Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
6His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone.
6Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
7One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air can’t come between them.
7Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
8They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and can’t be separated.
8Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
9At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are [as] the appearance of the morning star.
9Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
10None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
11Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
11Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
12His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
12“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
13And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
13Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?
14The flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved.
14Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
15His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
15Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
16And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.
16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate.
17They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.
18For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.
18His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19The bow of brass shall not wound him, he deems a slinger as grass.
19Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.
20Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
20Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay.
21His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.
22He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
22There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
23and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range.
23The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.
24There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.
24His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
25He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.
25When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.