Job Chapter 41 of 42 about 2 min read

Job 41

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Verse 1. “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Verse 2. Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Verse 3. Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Verse 4. Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

Verse 5. Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

Verse 6. Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

Verse 7. Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

Verse 8. If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

Verse 9. Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

Verse 10. No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

Verse 11. Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

Verse 12. I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

Verse 13. Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

Verse 14. Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

Verse 15. His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

Verse 16. One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

Verse 17. They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

Verse 18. His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Verse 19. Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

Verse 20. Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

Verse 21. His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

Verse 22. Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

Verse 23. The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

Verse 24. His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

Verse 25. When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

Verse 26. The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

Verse 27. He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

Verse 28. No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

Verse 29. A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

Verse 30. His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

Verse 31. He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

Verse 32. He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

Verse 33. Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!

Verse 34. He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”