Job 41 — ULB

41Verse 1Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or tie up his jaws with a cord?
^{Verse 2}Can you put a rope into his nose,
or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
^{Verse 3}Will he make many pleas to you?
Will he speak soft words to you?
^{Verse 4}Will he make a covenant with you,
that you should take him for a servant forever?
^{Verse 5}Will you play with him as you would with a bird?
Will you tie him up for your servant girls?
^{Verse 6}Will the groups of fishermen bargain for him?
Will they divide him up to trade among the merchants?
^{Verse 7}Can you fill his hide with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?
^{Verse 8}Put your hand on him just once,
and you will remember the battle and do it no more.
^{Verse 9}See, the hope of anyone who does that is a lie;
will not anyone be thrown down to the ground just by the sight of him?^{Verse 10}None is so fierce that he dare stir Leviathan up;
who, then, is he who can stand before me?
^{Verse 11}Who has first given anything to me in order that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole sky is mine.^{Verse 12}I will not keep silent concerning Leviathan's legs,
nor about the matter of his strength, nor about his graceful form.
^{Verse 13}Who can strip off his outer covering?
Who can penetrate his double armor?
^{Verse 14}Who can open the doors of his face—
ringed with his teeth, which are a terror?
^{Verse 15}his back is made up of rows of shields,
tight 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 to each other;
they stick together, so that they cannot be pulled apart.
^{Verse 18}Light flashes out from his snorting;
his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning dawn.
^{Verse 19}Out of his mouth go burning torches,
sparks of fire leap out.
^{Verse 20}Out of his nostrils goes smoke
like a boiling pot on a fire that has been fanned to be very hot.
^{Verse 21}His breath kindles coals into flame;
fires go out from his mouth.
^{Verse 22}In his neck is strength,
and terror dances in front of him.
^{Verse 23}The folds of his flesh are joined together;
they are firm on him; they cannot be moved.
^{Verse 24}His heart is as hard as a stone—
indeed, as hard as a lower millstone.
^{Verse 25}When he raises himself up, even the gods become afraid;
because of fear, they draw back.
^{Verse 26}If a sword strikes him, it does nothing—
and neither does a spear, an arrow, or any other pointed weapon.
^{Verse 27}He thinks of iron as if it were straw,
and of bronze as if it were rotten wood.
^{Verse 28}An arrow cannot make him flee;
to him sling stones become chaff.
^{Verse 29}Clubs are regarded as straw;
he laughs at the whirring flight of a spear.
^{Verse 30}His lower parts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery;
he leaves a spreading trail in the mud as if he were a threshing sledge.
^{Verse 31}He makes the deep to foam up like a pot of boiling water;
he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
^{Verse 32}He makes a shining wake behind him;
one would think the deep had gray hair.
^{Verse 33}On earth there is no equal to him,
who has been made to live without fear.
^{Verse 34}He sees everything that is proud;
he is king over all the sons of pride.”