Job 41 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Job 41:1

Job 41:1 [fn] “Can you draw out Leviathan[fn] with a fishhook
or press down his tongue with a cord?

Job 41:2

Job 41:2Can you put a rope in his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Job 41:3

Job 41:3Will he make many pleas to you?
Will he speak to you soft words?

Job 41:4

Job 41:4Will he make a covenant with you
to take him for your servant forever?

Job 41:5

Job 41:5Will you play with him as with a bird,
or will you put him on a leash for your girls?

Job 41:6

Job 41:6Will traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?

Job 41:7

Job 41:7Can you fill his skin with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?

Job 41:8

Job 41:8Lay your hands on him;
remember the battle—you will not do it again!

Job 41:9

Job 41:9 [fn] Behold, the hope of a man is false;
he is laid low even at the sight of him.

Job 41:10

Job 41:10No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.
Who then is he who can stand before me?

Job 41:11

Job 41:11Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

Job 41:12

Job 41:12“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.

Job 41:13

Job 41:13Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who would come near him with a bridle?

Job 41:14

Job 41:14Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth is terror.

Job 41:15

Job 41:15His back is made of[fn] rows of shields,
shut up closely as with a seal.

Job 41:16

Job 41:16One is so near to another
that no air can come between them.

Job 41:17

Job 41:17They are joined one to another;
they clasp each other and cannot be separated.

Job 41:18

Job 41:18His sneezings flash forth light,
and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

Job 41:19

Job 41:19Out of his mouth go flaming torches;
sparks of fire leap forth.

Job 41:20

Job 41:20Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke,
as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

Job 41:21

Job 41:21His breath kindles coals,
and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

Job 41:22

Job 41:22In his neck abides strength,
and terror dances before him.

Job 41:23

Job 41:23The folds of his flesh stick together,
firmly cast on him and immovable.

Job 41:24

Job 41:24His heart is hard as a stone,
hard as the lower millstone.

Job 41:25

Job 41:25When he raises himself up, the mighty[fn] are afraid;
at the crashing they are beside themselves.

Job 41:26

Job 41:26Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,
nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

Job 41:27

Job 41:27He counts iron as straw,
and bronze as rotten wood.

Job 41:28

Job 41:28The arrow cannot make him flee;
for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.

Job 41:29

Job 41:29Clubs are counted as stubble;
he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

Job 41:30

Job 41:30His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

Job 41:31

Job 41:31He makes the deep boil like a pot;
he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

Job 41:32

Job 41:32Behind him he leaves a shining wake;
one would think the deep to be white-haired.

Job 41:33

Job 41:33On earth there is not his like,
a creature without fear.

Job 41:34

Job 41:34He sees everything that is high;
he is king over all the sons of pride.”

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ESV Footnotes

(41:1)

Ch 40:25 in Hebrew

(41:1)

A large sea animal, exact identity unknown

(41:9)

Ch 41:1 in Hebrew

(41:15)

Or His pride is in his

(41:25)

Or gods

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