Job 41 — ASVBT

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