Job 41 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

God's Power Shown in Creatures

Job 41:1

Job 41:1"Can you draw out Levi'athan 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 supplications 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 for ever?

Job 41:5

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

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 hands on him; think of the battle; you will not do it again!

Job 41:9

Job 41:9Behold, the hope of a man is disappointed; 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 that can stand before me?

Job 41:11

Job 41:11Who has 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 can penetrate his double coat of mail?

Job 41:14

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

Job 41:15

Job 41:15His back is made of 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 cleave together, firmly cast upon him and immovable.

Job 41:24

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

Job 41:25

Job 41:25When he raises himself up the mighty 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 slingstones 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 hoary.

Job 41:33

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

Job 41:34

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

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Job 41 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

God's Power Shown in Creatures

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