Job 41 — Legacy Standard Bible

Can You Draw Out Leviathan?

41“¹Can you draw out ²^,^aLeviathan with a fishhook?Or press down its tongue with a cord?²“Can you ^aput a ¹rope in its noseOr pierce its jaw with a ²hook?³“Will it make many supplications to you,Or will he speak to you soft words?⁴“Will it cut a covenant with you?Will you take it for a slave forever?⁵“Will you play with it as with a bird,Or will you bind it for your young women?⁶“Will the ¹traders bargain over it?Will they divide it among the merchants?⁷“Can you fill its skin with harpoons,Or its head with fishing spears?⁸“Place your hand on it;Remember the battle; ¹you will not do that again!⁹“¹Behold, ²his expectation is a lie;Will ³he be laid low even at the sight of it?¹⁰“No one is so fierce that he dares to ^aarouse it;Who then is he that can stand before Me?¹¹“Who has ¹^,^agiven to Me that I should repay him?Whatever is ^bunder the whole heaven is Mine.¹²“I will not keep silence concerning its limbs,Or its mighty strength or its graceful frame.¹³“Who can ¹strip off its ²outer armor?Who can come with its doubled ³bridle?¹⁴“Who can open the doors of its face?Around its teeth there is dreadful terror.¹⁵“Its ¹strong scales are its pride,Shut up as with a tight seal.¹⁶“One is so near to anotherThat no air can come between them.¹⁷“They cling one to another;They are interlocked and cannot be separated.¹⁸“Its sneezes flash forth light,And its eyes are like the ^aeyelids of the morning.¹⁹“Out of its mouth go burning torches;Sparks of fire ¹leap forth.²⁰“Out of its nostrils smoke goes forthAs from a boiling pot and burning reeds.²¹“Its breath kindles coals,And a flame goes forth from its mouth.²²“In its neck lodges strength,And dismay leaps before it.²³“The folds of its flesh cling together,Hardened upon it and is not shaken.²⁴“Its heart is as hard as a stone,Even as hard as a lower millstone.²⁵“When it raises itself up, the ¹mighty fear,Because of the crashing they are ²bewildered.²⁶“The sword that reaches it cannot avail,Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.²⁷“It regards iron as straw,Bronze as rotten wood.²⁸“The ¹arrow cannot make it flee;Slingstones are turned into stubble for it.²⁹“Clubs are regarded as stubble;It laughs at the rattling of the javelin.³⁰“Its underparts are like sharp potsherds;It ¹spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.³¹“It makes the depths boil like a pot;It makes the sea like a jar of ointment.³²“Behind it, it makes a wake to shine;One would think the deep to be gray-haired.³³“^aThere is nothing upon the ¹dust like it,One made without terror.³⁴“¹It looks on everything that is high;It is king over all the ^asons of pride.”