Job 41 :: New International Version (NIV)

Job 41:1

Job 41:1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?

Job 41:2

Job 41:2Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?

Job 41:3

Job 41:3Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?

Job 41:4

Job 41:4Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?

Job 41:5

Job 41:5Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?

Job 41:6

Job 41:6Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

Job 41:7

Job 41:7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

Job 41:8

Job 41:8If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!

Job 41:9

Job 41:9Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.

Job 41:10

Job 41:10No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?

Job 41:11

Job 41:11Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.

Job 41:12

Job 41:12“I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs, its strength and its graceful form.

Job 41:13

Job 41:13Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor[fn]?

Job 41:14

Job 41:14Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?

Job 41:15

Job 41:15Its back has[fn] rows of shields tightly sealed together;

Job 41:16

Job 41:16each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.

Job 41:17

Job 41:17They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.

Job 41:18

Job 41:18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Job 41:19

Job 41:19Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.

Job 41:20

Job 41:20Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

Job 41:21

Job 41:21Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.

Job 41:22

Job 41:22Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.

Job 41:23

Job 41:23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

Job 41:24

Job 41:24Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

Job 41:25

Job 41:25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.

Job 41:26

Job 41:26The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.

Job 41:27

Job 41:27Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.

Job 41:28

Job 41:28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.

Job 41:29

Job 41:29A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

Job 41:30

Job 41:30Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Job 41:31

Job 41:31It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.

Job 41:32

Job 41:32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.

Job 41:33

Job 41:33Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.

Job 41:34

Job 41:34It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud.”

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NIV Footnotes

(41:13)

Septuagint; Hebrew double bridle

(41:15)

Or Its pride is its

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