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title="Job 40">◄</a> Job 41 <a href="../job/42.htm" title="Job 42">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/41.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group"><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 40:25 in Hebrew">a</a></sup></span> “Can you draw out Leviathan<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A large sea animal, exact identity unknown">b</a></sup></span> with a fishhook</span><br /><span class="indent">or press down his tongue with a cord?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Can you put a rope in his nose</span><br /><span class="indent">or pierce his jaw with a hook?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will he make many pleas to you?</span><br /><span class="indent">Will he speak to you soft words?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will he make a covenant with you</span><br /><span class="indent">to take him for your servant forever?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will you play with him as with a bird,</span><br /><span class="indent">or will you put him on a leash for your girls?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will traders bargain over him?</span><br /><span class="indent">Will they divide him up among the merchants?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Can you fill his skin with harpoons</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">Lay your hands on him;</span><br /><span class="indent">remember the battle—you will not do it again!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group"><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 41:1 in Hebrew">c</a></sup></span> Behold, the hope of a man is false;</span><br /><span class="indent">he is laid low even at the sight of him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.</span><br /><span class="indent">Who then is he who can stand before me?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?</span><br /><span class="indent">Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,</span><br /><span class="indent">or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Who can strip off his outer garment?</span><br /><span class="indent">Who would come near him with a bridle?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Who can open the doors of his face?</span><br /><span class="indent">Around his teeth is terror.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His back is made of<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or His pride is in his">d</a></sup></span> rows of shields,</span><br /><span class="indent">shut up closely as with a seal.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">One is so near to another</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">They are joined one to another;</span><br /><span class="indent">they clasp each other and cannot be separated.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His sneezings flash forth light,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Out of his mouth go flaming torches;</span><br /><span class="indent">sparks of fire leap forth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke,</span><br /><span class="indent">as from 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><span class="ln-group">His breath kindles coals,</span><br /><span class="indent">and a flame comes forth from his mouth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In his neck abides strength,</span><br /><span class="indent">and terror dances before him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The folds of his flesh stick together,</span><br /><span class="indent">firmly cast on him and immovable.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His heart is hard as a stone,</span><br /><span class="indent">hard as the lower millstone.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When he raises himself up, the mighty<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or gods">e</a></sup></span> are afraid;</span><br /><span class="indent">at the crashing they are beside themselves.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He counts iron as straw,</span><br /><span class="indent">and bronze as rotten wood.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The arrow cannot make him flee;</span><br /><span class="indent">for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Clubs are counted as stubble;</span><br /><span class="indent">he laughs at the rattle of javelins.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His underparts are like sharp potsherds;</span><br /><span class="indent">he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He makes the deep boil like a pot;</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">Behind him he leaves a shining wake;</span><br /><span class="indent">one would think the deep to be white-haired.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">On earth there is not his like,</span><br /><span class="indent">a creature without fear.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He sees everything that is high;</span><br /><span class="indent">he is king over all the sons of pride.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Ch 40:25 in Hebrew<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> A large sea animal, exact identity unknown<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Ch 41:1 in Hebrew<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">His</span> pride is in his</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> Or <i>gods</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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