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Anyone’s hope to capture him<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="41:9 The Heb. lacks to capture him">g</a></span> will prove itself false;</p> <p class="poetry2">anyone would be terrified<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="41:9 Or subdued">h</a></span> just by looking at him.</p> <p class="poetry1 marginbot"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>No one is fierce enough to dare to arouse him.</p> <p class="poetry2">“Who, then, can stand in my presence and face me?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Who can take me to court and be reconciled to me?</p> <p class="poetry2">All of heaven is mine.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“I won’t be silent concerning his limbs,</p> <p class="poetry2">his mighty strength, and orderly frame.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who can strip off his outer armor?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="41:13 Lit. clothing">i</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Who can approach him with a bridle?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Who dares to open his mouth,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="41:14 Lit. door of his face">j</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">since it is ringed with his terrible teeth!</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>His protective scales are his pride,</p> <p class="poetry2">they lie sealed tightly together.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Each one is so close to the other</p> <p class="poetry2">that not even air comes in between them.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Each is attached to the other,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="41:17 Lit. with his brother">k</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">grasping each other so they cannot be separated.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“His snorting releases flashes of light;</p> <p class="poetry2">his eyes are like the rays<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="41:18 Lit. eyelids">l</a></span> of the dawn.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Flames blaze from his mouth;</p> <p class="poetry2">streams of sparking fire fly out.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Smoke billows from his nostrils;</p> <p class="poetry2">like a boiling pot or burning reeds.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>His breath can ignite coal;</p> <p class="poetry2">and flames proceed from his mouth.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“His neck is so powerful</p> <p class="poetry2">that all who meet him are terrified.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>There is no flaw in his body’s armor;</p> <p class="poetry2">it is firmly fixed on him and unbreachable.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>His heart is as strong as stone,</p> <p class="poetry2">it is as hard as a lower millstone.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When he rears up, the mighty are terrified;</p> <p class="poetry2">they are bewildered as he thrashes about.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“Thrusting at him with a sword won’t be effective,</p> <p class="poetry2">nor will spears, darts, or javelins.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>He regards iron like straw,</p> <p class="poetry2">and hardened bronze like a dead tree.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Arrows won’t make him flee;</p> <p class="poetry2">stones from a sling are only pebbles to him.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Clubs are like twigs;<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="41:29 Lit. stubble">m</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds;</p> <p class="poetry2">he tears through muddy ground</p> <p class="poetry2">like a threshing sledge through grain.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="41:30 The Heb. lacks through grain">n</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>He causes the deep to boil like water in<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="41:31 The Heb. lacks water in">o</a></span> a pot,</p> <p class="poetry2">and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The sea is luminescent behind him;</p> <p class="poetry2">his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>“There’s nothing like him on earth;</p> <p class="poetry2">he was created without the ability to fear.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He looks down on everything that is high;</p> <p class="poetry2">he rules over every kind<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="41:34 Lit. son">p</a></span> of pride.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 41:1 This v. is 40:25 in MT, v2 is 40:26 in MT, and so through v8.<br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 41:1 i.e. an ancient, gigantic sea creature, living in Job’s time but now apparently extinct<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 41:1 The Heb. lacks <i>of the water</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 41:1 Lit. <i>or sink</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 41:2 Lit. <i>rope</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 41:3 Lit. <i>you with gentle words</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 41:9 The Heb. lacks <i>to capture him</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 41:9 Or <i>subdued</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 41:13 Lit. <i>clothing</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 41:14 Lit. <i>door of his face</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 41:17 Lit. <i>with his brother</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 41:18 Lit. <i>eyelids</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 41:29 Lit. <i>stubble</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 41:30 The Heb. lacks <i>through grain</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 41:31 The Heb. lacks <i>water in</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 41:34 Lit. <i>son</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible 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