Job 41
Job 41:1
Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?
Job 41:2
Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
Job 41:3
Will he make many supplications unto thee? Or will he speak soft words unto thee?
Job 41:4
Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?
Job 41:5
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Job 41:6
Will the bands [of fishermen] make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants?
Job 41:7
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears?
Job 41:8
Lay thy hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no more.
Job 41:9
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Job 41:10
None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me?
Job 41:11
Who hath first given unto me, that I should repay him? [Whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.
Job 41:12
I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
Job 41:13
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
Job 41:14
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Job 41:15
[His] strong scales are [his] pride, Shut up together [as with] a close seal.
Job 41:16
One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.
Job 41:17
They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they cannot be sundered.
Job 41:18
His sneezings flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Job 41:19
Out of his mouth go burning torches, And sparks of fire leap forth.
Job 41:20
Out of his nostrils a smoke goeth, As of a boiling pot and [burning] rushes.
Job 41:21
His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from his mouth.
Job 41:22
In his neck abideth strength, And terror danceth before him.
Job 41:23
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm upon him; They cannot be moved.
Job 41:24
His heart is as firm as a stone; Yea, firm as the nether millstone.
Job 41:25
When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: By reason of consternation they are beside themselves.
Job 41:26
If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
Job 41:27
He counteth iron as straw, [And] brass as rotten wood.
Job 41:28
The arrow cannot make him flee: Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.
Job 41:29
Clubs are counted as stubble: He laugheth at the rushing of the javelin.
Job 41:30
His underparts are [like] sharp potsherds: He spreadeth [as it were] a threshing-wain upon the mire.
Job 41:31
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Job 41:32
He maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.
Job 41:33
Upon earth there is not his like, That is made without fear.
Job 41:34
He beholdeth everything that is high: He is king over all the sons of pride.