Job Chapter 41 (NIV)

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undefined “Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhookor tie down his tongue with a rope?

undefined Can you put a cord through his noseor pierce his jaw with a hook?

undefined Will he keep begging you for mercy?Will he speak to you with gentle words?

undefined Will he make an agreement with youfor you to take him as your slave for life?

undefined Can you make a pet of him like a birdor put him on a leash for your girls?

undefined Will traders barter for him?Will they divide him up among the merchants?

undefined Can you fill his hide with harpoonsor his head with fishing spears?

undefined If you lay a hand on him,you will remember the struggle and never do it again!

undefined Any hope of subduing him is false;the mere sight of him is overpowering.

undefined No one is fierce enough to rouse him.Who then is able to stand against me?

undefined Who has a claim against me that I must pay?Everything under heaven belongs to me.

undefined “I will not fail to speak of his limbs,his strength and his graceful form.

undefined Who can strip off his outer coat?Who would approach him with a bridle?

undefined Who dares open the doors of his mouth,ringed about with his fearsome teeth?

undefined His back has rows of shieldstightly sealed together;

undefined each is so close to the nextthat no air can pass between.

undefined They are joined fast to one another;they cling together and cannot be parted.

undefined His snorting throws out flashes of light;his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

undefined Firebrands stream from his mouth;sparks of fire shoot out.

undefined Smoke pours from his nostrilsas from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

undefined His breath sets coals ablaze,and flames dart from his mouth.

undefined Strength resides in his neck;dismay goes before him.

undefined The folds of his flesh are tightly joined;they are firm and immovable.

undefined His chest is hard as rock,hard as a lower millstone.

undefined When he rises up, the mighty are terrified;they retreat before his thrashing.

undefined The sword that reaches him has no effect,nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.

undefined Iron he treats like strawand bronze like rotten wood.

undefined Arrows do not make him flee;slingstones are like chaff to him.

undefined A club seems to him but a piece of straw;he laughs at the rattling of the lance.

undefined His undersides are jagged potsherds,leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

undefined He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldronand stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.

undefined Behind him he leaves a glistening wake;one would think the deep had white hair.

undefined Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature without fear.

undefined He looks down on all that are haughty;he is king over all that are proud.”

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