BBE - Job - 41

41:1  Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

41:2  Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?

41:3  Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

41:4  Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

41:5  Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

41:6  Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

41:7  Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?

41:8  Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

41:9  Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!

41:10  He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

41:11  Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

41:12  I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

41:13  Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

41:14  Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

41:15  His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

41:16  One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

41:17  They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.

41:18  His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

41:19  Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

41:20  Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.

41:21  His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

41:22  Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him.

41:23  The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved.

41:24  His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.

41:25  When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

41:26  The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

41:27  Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

41:28  The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

41:29  A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

41:30  Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

41:31  The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

41:32  After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.

41:33  On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.

41:34  Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.