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v1

^[Job 41:1–34 in the English Bible is 40:25–41:26 in the Hebrew Bible] “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or ^[Hebrew “And”] can you tie down its mouth with a cord? ^[Literally “with a cord can you press down its tongue”]

v2

Can you put a rope in its nose? Or ^[Hebrew “And”] can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?

v3

Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you?

v4

Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?

v5

Will you play with it as with birds and put it on a leash for your girls?

v6

Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen?

v7

Can you fill its kin with harpoons or ^[Hebrew “and”] its head with fish spears?

v8

Lay your hands on it; think about the battle—you will not do it again!

v9

“Look, the hope of capturing it ^[Literally “its hope”] is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?

v10

Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who then is he who would stand before it? ^[Or “Who is he then__who could stand before me?”; literally “to the face of me”]

v11

Who has come to confront me, that ^[Hebrew “and”] I should repay him? Under all the heavens, it belongs to me. ^[Literally “to me”]

v12

“I will not keep quiet concerning its limbs or ^[Hebrew “and”] concerning the extent of its might and the gracefulness of its frame.

v13

Who can strip off its outer covering? ^[Literally “the surface of its garment”] Who can penetrate its double harness?

v14

Who can open the doors of its face? Its teeth all around are fearsome.

v15

Its back ^[LXX; or “pride”] has scales of shields; it is shut up closely as with a seal.

v16

They are close to one another— ^[Literally “one to one”] even ^[Hebrew “and”] the air cannot come between them.

v17

They are joined one to another; ^[Literally “a man to his brother”] they cling together and cannot be separated.

v18

“Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes are red like dawn. ^[Literally “like eyelids of dawn”]

v19

Torches go from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.

v20

Smoke comes from its nostrils as from a kettle boiling and burning bulrushes.

v21

Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth.

v22

“Strength abides in its neck, and dismay ^[Or “strength”] dances before it. ^[Literally “to the face of him/it”]

v23

Its flesh’s folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it—it will not be moved.

v24

Its heart is cast as stone; yes, ^[Hebrew “and”] it is cast as the lower millstone.

v25

When it raises itself, ^[Literally “From his/its rising up”] the mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.

v26

Reaching it with the sword does not avail, nor with the spear, the dart, or ^[Hebrew “and”] the javelin.

v27

It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

v28

An arrow ^[Literally “A son of a bow”] will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.

v29

Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at the short sword’s rattle.

v30

“Its underparts are shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud like a threshing sledge.

v31

It makes the deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

v32

Behind it, it leaves a glistening wake; ^[Literally “it lights up the path”] one would think that the deep has gray hair.

v33

On the ground it has no equal ^[Literally “There is not on the ground its likeness”]— a ^[Hebrew “the”] creature without fear.

v34

It observes all the lofty; it is king over all that are proud.” ^[Literally “over all sons of pride”]