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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/41.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>God’s Power in the Leviathan</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-41-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Can you draw out Leviathan<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span> with a hook,</span></span><br /><span class="text Job-41-1">Or <i>snare</i> his tongue with a line <i>which</i> you lower?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Can you put a reed through his nose,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-2">Or pierce his jaw with a <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>hook?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Will he make many supplications to you?</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-3">Will he speak softly to you?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Will he make a covenant with you?</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-4">Will you take him as a servant forever?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Will you play with him as <i>with</i> a bird,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-5">Or will you leash him for your maidens?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Will <i>your</i> companions <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>make a banquet of him?</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-6">Will they apportion him among the merchants?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Can you fill his skin with harpoons,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-7">Or his head with fishing spears?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Lay your hand on him;</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-8">Remember the battle—</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-8">Never do it again!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Indeed, <i>any</i> hope of <i>overcoming</i> him is false;</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-9">Shall <i>one not</i> be overwhelmed at the sight of him?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>No one <i>is so</i> fierce that he would dare stir him up.</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-10">Who then is able to stand against Me?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Who has preceded Me, that I should pay <i>him?</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-41-11">Everything under heaven is Mine.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“I will not <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>conceal his limbs,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-12">His mighty power, or his graceful proportions.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who can <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>remove his outer coat?</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-13">Who can approach <i>him</i> with a double bridle?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Who can open the doors of his face,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-14"><i>With</i> his terrible teeth all around?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><i>His</i> rows of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>scales are <i>his</i> pride,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-15">Shut up tightly <i>as with</i> a seal;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>One is so near another</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-16">That no air can come between them;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They are joined one to another,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-17">They stick together and cannot be parted.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>His sneezings flash forth light,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-18">And his eyes <i>are</i> like the eyelids of the morning.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Out of his mouth go burning lights;</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-19">Sparks of fire shoot out.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Smoke goes out of his nostrils,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-20">As <i>from</i> a boiling pot and burning rushes.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>His breath kindles coals,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-21">And a flame goes out of his mouth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Strength dwells in his neck,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-22">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>sorrow dances before him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The folds of his flesh are joined together;</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-23">They are firm on him and cannot be moved.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>His heart is as hard as stone,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-24">Even as hard as the lower <i>millstone.</i></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-25">Because of his crashings they <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>are beside themselves.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><i>Though</i> the sword reaches him, it cannot avail;</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-26">Nor does spear, dart, or javelin.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>He regards iron as straw,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-27"><i>And</i> bronze as rotten wood.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The arrow cannot make him flee;</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-28">Slingstones become like stubble to him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Darts are regarded as straw;</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-29">He laughs at the threat of javelins.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>His undersides <i>are</i> like sharp potsherds;</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-30">He spreads pointed <i>marks</i> in the mire.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>He makes the deep boil like a pot;</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-31">He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He leaves a shining wake behind him;</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-32"><i>One</i> would think the deep had white hair.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>On earth there is nothing like him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-41-33">Which is made without fear.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He beholds every high <i>thing;</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-41-34">He <i>is</i> king over all the children of pride.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13890a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 41:1">Job 41:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>A large sea creature, exact identity unknown</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13891b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 41:2">Job 41:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>thorn</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13895c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 41:6">Job 41:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>bargain over him</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13901d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 41:12">Job 41:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>keep silent about</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13902e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 41:13">Job 41:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>take off the face of his garment</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13904f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 41:15">Job 41:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>shields</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13911g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 41:22">Job 41:22</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>despair</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13914h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 41:25">Job 41:25</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>purify themselves</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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