Job 41 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

God's Power Shown in Creatures

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.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 41 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

God's Power Shown in Creatures

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Job Chapter 41 — Additional Translations:

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