Job 41 — NETB

41Verse 1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook,
and tie down its tongue with a rope?
^{Verse 2}Can you put a cord through its nose,
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
^{Verse 3}Will it make numerous supplications to you,
will it speak to you with tender words?
^{Verse 4}Will it make a pact with you,
so you could take it as your slave for life?
^{Verse 5}Can you play with it, like a bird,
or tie it on a leash for your girls?
^{Verse 6}Will partners bargain for it?
Will they divide it up among the merchants?
^{Verse 7}Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?
^{Verse 8}If you lay your hand on it,
you will remember the fight,
and you will never do it again!
^{Verse 9}See, his expectation is wrong,
he is laid low even at the sight of it.
^{Verse 10}Is it not fierce when it is awakened?
Who is he, then, who can stand before it?
^{Verse 11}(Who has confronted me that I should repay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me!)
^{Verse 12}I will not keep silent about its limbs,
and the extent of its might,
and the grace of its arrangement.
^{Verse 13}Who can uncover its outer covering?
Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor?
^{Verse 14}Who can open the doors of its mouth?
Its teeth all around are fearsome.
^{Verse 15}Its back has rows of shields,
shut up closely together as with a seal;
^{Verse 16}each one is so close to the next
that no air can come between them.
^{Verse 17}They lock tightly together, one to the next;
they cling together and cannot be separated.
^{Verse 18}Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.
^{Verse 19}Out of its mouth go flames,
sparks of fire shoot forth!
^{Verse 20}Smoke streams from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.
^{Verse 21}Its breath sets coals ablaze
and a flame shoots from its mouth.
^{Verse 22}Strength lodges in its neck,
and despair runs before it.
^{Verse 23}The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm on it, immovable.
^{Verse 24}Its heart is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.
^{Verse 25}When it rises up, the mighty are terrified,
at its thrashing about they withdraw.
^{Verse 26}Whoever strikes it with a sword
will have no effect,
nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.
^{Verse 27}It regards iron as straw
and bronze as rotten wood.
^{Verse 28}Arrows do not make it flee;
slingstones become like chaff to it.
^{Verse 29}A club is counted as a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
^{Verse 30}Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds,
it leaves its mark in the mud
like a threshing sledge.
^{Verse 31}It makes the deep boil like a cauldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment,
^{Verse 32}It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had a head of white hair.
^{Verse 33}The likes of it is not on earth,
a creature without fear.
^{Verse 34}It looks on every haughty being;
it is king over all that are proud.”