Job 41 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

God’s Power Shown in Creatures

1“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?

Or press down his tongue with a cord?

2“Can you put a rope of rushes into his nose

Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

3“Will he make many supplications to you?

Or will he speak soft words to you?

4“Will he make a covenant or an arrangement with you?

Will you take him for your servant forever?

5“Will you play with him as with a bird?

Or will you bind him for your maidens?

6“Will traders bargain over him?

Will they divide him up among the merchants?

7“Can you fill his skin with harpoons,

Or his head with fishing spears?

8“Lay your hand on him;

Remember the battle; you will not do such again!

9“Behold, his hope and expectation is false;

Will not one be overwhelmed even at the sight of him?

10“No one is so fierce that he dares to stir up Leviathan;

Who then is he who can stand before Me?

11“Who has first given to Me that I should repay him?

Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.

12¶“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,

Nor his mighty strength, nor his orderly frame.

13“Who can penetrate or strip off his outer armor?

Who can come to his jaws with a double bridle?

14“Who can open the doors (jaws) of his face?

Around his teeth there is terror.

15“His strong scales are his pride,

Bound together as with a tight seal.

16“One is so near to another

That no air can come between them.

17“They are joined one to another;

They stick together and cannot be separated.

18“His sneezes flash forth light,

And his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

19“Out of his mouth go burning torches,

And sparks of fire leap out.

20“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth

As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

21“His breath kindles coals,

And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

22“In Leviathan’s neck resides strength,

And dismay and terror dance before him.

23“The folds of his flesh are joined together,

Firm on him and immobile.

24“His heart is as hard as a stone,

Indeed, as solid as a lower millstone.

25“When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;

Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

26“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,

Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

27“He considers iron as straw,

Bronze as rotten wood.

28“The arrow cannot make him flee;

Slingstones are treated as stubble by him.

29“Clubs are regarded as stubble;

He laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin.

30“His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery;

He moves across and spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks).

31“He makes the deep water boil like a pot;

He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

32“Behind him he makes a shining wake;

One would think the deep to be gray-haired.

33“Upon earth there is nothing like him—no equal exists,

A creature made without fear.

34“He looks on everything that is high;

He is monarch over all the sons of pride.”