Job · Catholic Public Domain Version
Job 41 Catholic Public Domain Version
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1 I will not rouse him, as the cruel would do, for who is able to withstand my countenance?
1 “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Who has given to me beforehand, so that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
2 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
3 I will not spare him, nor his powerful words and counterfeit attempts at supplication.
3 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
4 Who can reveal the beauty of his garment? And who can enter the middle of his mouth?
4 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
5 Who can open the doors of his face? I gave fear to the circle of his teeth.
5 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
6 His body is like shields fused together, like dense scales pressed over one another.
6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
7 One is joined to another, and not even air can pass between them.
7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
8 They adhere to one another, and they hold themselves in place and will not be separated.
8 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
9 His sneezing has the brilliance of fire, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 Lamps proceed from his mouth, like torches of fire burning brightly.
10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
11 Smoke passes out of his nostrils, like a pot that is heated and boiling.
11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
12 His breath causes coal to burn, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
12 “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
13 Strength dwells in his neck, and destitution goes before his presence.
13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?
14 The parts of his body work in harmony together. He will send lightning bolts against him, and they will not be carried to another place.
14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
15 His heart will be as hard as a stone and as dense as a blacksmith’s anvil.
15 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
16 When he will be raised up, the angels will be afraid, and, because they are terrified, they will purify themselves.
16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17 When a sword catches up with him, it will not be able to settle in, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
17 They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.
18 For he will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood.
18 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 The archer will not cause him to flee; the stones of the sling have been turned into stubble for him.
19 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.
20 He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear.
20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay.
21 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.
22 He will make the depths of the sea boil like a pot, and he will set it to bubble just as ointments do.
22 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
23 A path will shine after him; he will esteem the abyss as if it were weakening with age.
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.
24 There is no power on the earth that is being compared to him, who has been made so that he fears no one.
24 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
25 He sees every prominent thing; he is king over all the sons of arrogance.
25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing. 26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. 27 He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. 28 The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him. 29 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin. 30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. 31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. 32 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair. 33 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear. 34 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 27:1; Job 3:8; Psalm 74:14; Psalm 104:26
- 2 Isaiah 37:29; Ezekiel 29:4–5; 2 Kings 19:28; Isaiah 27:1
- 3 Proverbs 18:23; Isaiah 30:10; Proverbs 25:15; Proverbs 15:1; Psalm 55:21
- 4 Exodus 21:6; Deuteronomy 15:17; 1 Kings 20:31–34; Genesis 1:28; Psalm 8:5–6
- 5 Judges 16:25–30; Job 28:11
- 6 Judges 14:11
- 8 1 Kings 20:11; Luke 14:31–32; 2 Kings 10:4
- 9 Luke 21:11; 1 Samuel 3:11; Isaiah 28:19; Deuteronomy 28:34
- 10 Job 9:4; Jeremiah 12:5; Numbers 24:9; Job 3:8; 1 Corinthians 10:22
- 11 Romans 11:35; Psalm 24:1; 1 Chronicles 29:11–14; Job 35:7; Deuteronomy 10:14
- 12 Genesis 1:25
- 13 James 3:3; 2 Kings 19:28; Psalm 32:9
- 14 Ecclesiastes 12:4; Psalm 58:6; Daniel 7:7; Psalm 57:4; Job 38:10
- 15 Jeremiah 9:23; Revelation 5:2–3; Revelation 5:5
- 18 Job 3:9; Revelation 1:14
- 19 Psalm 18:8
- 20 Jeremiah 1:13–14
- 21 Psalm 18:8; Isaiah 30:33; Habakkuk 3:5; Psalm 18:12
- 22 Hosea 13:14; Job 40:16; 1 Corinthians 15:55–57; Job 39:19
- 24 Isaiah 48:4; Jeremiah 5:3; Zechariah 7:12
- 25 Jonah 1:4–6; Psalm 107:28
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