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Job 41 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Job 41:1

Job 41:1Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

Job 41:2

Job 41:2Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?

Job 41:3

Job 41:3Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

Job 41:4

Job 41:4Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

Job 41:5

Job 41:5Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

Job 41:6

Job 41:6Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

Job 41:7

Job 41:7Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?

Job 41:8

Job 41:8Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

Job 41:9

Job 41:9Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!

Job 41:10

Job 41:10He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

Job 41:11

Job 41:11Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

Job 41:12

Job 41:12I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

Job 41:13

Job 41:13Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

Job 41:14

Job 41:14Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

Job 41:15

Job 41:15His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

Job 41:16

Job 41:16One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

Job 41:17

Job 41:17They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.

Job 41:18

Job 41:18His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

Job 41:19

Job 41:19Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

Job 41:20

Job 41:20Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.

Job 41:21

Job 41:21His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

Job 41:22

Job 41:22Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him.

Job 41:23

Job 41:23The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved.

Job 41:24

Job 41:24His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.

Job 41:25

Job 41:25When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

Job 41:26

Job 41:26The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

Job 41:27

Job 41:27Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

Job 41:28

Job 41:28The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

Job 41:29

Job 41:29A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

Job 41:30

Job 41:30Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

Job 41:31

Job 41:31The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

Job 41:32

Job 41:32After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.

Job 41:33

Job 41:33On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.

Job 41:34

Job 41:34Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.
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