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Job 41 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

God's Power Shown in Creatures

Job 41:1[fn]Can you draw out [fn]Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?
Job 41:2“Can you put a [fn]rope in his nose
Or pierce his jaw with a [fn]hook?
Job 41:3“Will he make many supplications to you,
Or will he speak to you soft words?
Job 41:4“Will he make a covenant with you?
Will you take him for a servant forever?
Job 41:5“Will you play with him as with a bird,
Or will you bind him for your maidens?
Job 41:6“Will the [fn]traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him among the merchants?
Job 41:7“Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?
Job 41:8“Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle; [fn]you will not do it again!
Job 41:9[fn]Behold, [fn]your expectation is false;
Will [fn]you be laid low even at the sight of him?
Job 41:10“No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him;
Who then is he that can stand before Me?
Job 41:11“Who has [fn]given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.
Job 41:12“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
Or his mighty strength, or his [fn]orderly frame.
Job 41:13“Who can [fn]strip off his outer armor?
Who can come within his double [fn]mail?
Job 41:14“Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth there is terror.
Job 41:15His [fn]strong scales are his pride,
Shut up as with a tight 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 clasp each other and cannot be separated.
Job 41:18“His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Job 41:19“Out of his mouth go burning torches;
Sparks of fire leap forth.
Job 41:20“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
Job 41:21“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
Job 41:22“In his neck lodges strength,
And dismay leaps before him.
Job 41:23“The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm on him and immovable.
Job 41:24“His heart is as hard as a stone,
Even as hard as a lower millstone.
Job 41:25“When he raises himself up, the [fn]mighty fear;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
Job 41:26“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor the spear, the dart or the javelin.
Job 41:27“He regards iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.
Job 41:28“The [fn]arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are turned into stubble for him.
Job 41:29“Clubs are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.
Job 41:30“His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
He [fn]spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.
Job 41:31“He makes the depths boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
Job 41:32“Behind him he makes a wake to shine;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired.
Job 41:33“Nothing on [fn]earth is like him,
One made without fear.
Job 41:34[fn]He looks on everything that is high;
He is king over all the sons of pride.”
NASB95 Footnotes
Ch 40:25 in Heb
Or, the crocodile
Literally: rope of rushes
Or, thorn or ring
Literally: partners
Literally: do not add
Ch 41:1 in Heb
Literally: his
Literally: he
Literally: anticipated
Or, graceful
Literally: uncover the face of his garment
So Gr; Heb bridle
Literally: rows of shields
Or, gods
Literally: son of the bow
Or, moves across
Literally: dust
Ch 41:26 in Heb
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