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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”]