Job 41 — LSV

41Verse 1“Do you draw leviathan with a hook? And do you let down his tongue with a rope?^{Verse 2}Do you put a reed in his nose? And pierce his jaw with a thorn?^{Verse 3}Does he multiply supplications to you? Does he speak tender things to you?^{Verse 4}Does he make a covenant with you? Do you take him for a perpetual servant?^{Verse 5}Do you play with him as a bird? And do you bind him for your girls?^{Verse 6}(Companions feast on him, || They divide him among the merchants!)^{Verse 7}Do you fill his skin with barbed irons? And his head with fish-spears?^{Verse 8}Place your hand on him, || Remember the battle—do not add!^{Verse 9}Behold, the hope of him is found a liar, || Also, is one not cast down at his appearance?^{Verse 10}None so fierce that he awakes him, || And who [is] he [who] stations himself before Me?^{Verse 11}Who has brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] Mine.^{Verse 12}I do not keep silent concerning his parts, || And the matter of might, || And the grace of his arrangement.^{Verse 13}Who has uncovered the face of his clothing? Who enters within his double bridle?^{Verse 14}Who has opened the doors of his face? Around his teeth [are] terrible.^{Verse 15}A pride—strong ones of shields, || Shut up—a close seal.^{Verse 16}They draw near to one another, || And air does not enter between them.^{Verse 17}They adhere to one another, || They stick together and are not separated.^{Verse 18}His sneezings cause light to shine, || And his eyes [are] as the eyelids of the dawn.^{Verse 19}Flames go out of his mouth, sparks of fire escape.^{Verse 20}Smoke goes forth out of his nostrils, || As a blown pot and reeds.^{Verse 21}His breath sets coals on fire, || And a flame goes forth from his mouth.^{Verse 22}Strength lodges in his neck, || And grief exults before him.^{Verse 23}The flakes of his flesh have adhered—Firm on him—it is not moved.^{Verse 24}His heart [is] firm as a stone, || Indeed, firm as the lower piece.^{Verse 25}The mighty are afraid at his rising, || From his breakings they keep themselves free.^{Verse 26}The sword of his overtaker does not stand, || Spear, dart, and breastplate.^{Verse 27}He reckons iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.^{Verse 28}The son of the bow does not cause him to flee, || Stones of the sling are turned into stubble by him.^{Verse 29}Darts have been reckoned as stubble, || And he laughs at the shaking of a javelin.^{Verse 30}Sharp points of clay [are] under him, || He spreads gold on the mire.^{Verse 31}He causes the deep to boil as a pot, || He makes the sea as a pot of ointment.^{Verse 32}He causes a path to shine after him, || One thinks the deep to be hoary.^{Verse 33}There is not on the earth his like, || That is made without terror.^{Verse 34}He sees every high thing, || He [is] king over all sons of pride.”