Job · Literal Standard Version
Job 41 Literal Standard Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
LSV Literal Standard Version
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 “Do you draw leviathan with a hook? And do you let down his tongue with a rope?
1 ¿SACARÁS tú al leviathán con el anzuelo, ó con la cuerda que le echares en su lengua?
1 “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Do you put a reed in his nose? And pierce his jaw with a thorn?
2 ¿Pondrás tú garfio en sus narices, y horadarás con espinas su quijada?
2 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
3 Does he multiply supplications to you? Does he speak tender things to you?
3 ¿Multiplicará él ruegos para contigo? ¿hablaráte él lisonjas?
3 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
4 Does he make a covenant with you? Do you take him for a perpetual servant?
4 ¿Hará concierto contigo para que lo tomes por siervo perpetuo?
4 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
5 Do you play with him as a bird? And do you bind him for your girls?
5 ¿Jugarás tú con él como con pájaro, ó lo atarás para tus niñas?
5 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
6 (Companions feast on him, || They divide him among the merchants!)
6 ¿Harán de él banquete los compañeros? ¿partiránlo entre los mercaderes?
6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
7 Do you fill his skin with barbed irons? And his head with fish-spears?
7 ¿Cortarás tú con cuchillo su cuero, ó con asta de pescadores su cabeza?
7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
8 Place your hand on him, || Remember the battle—do not add!
8 Pon tu mano sobre él; te acordarás de la batalla, y nunca más tornarás.
8 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
9 Behold, the hope of him is found a liar, || Also, is one not cast down at his appearance?
9 He aquí que la esperanza acerca de él será burlada: porque aun á su sola vista se desmayarán.
9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 None so fierce that he awakes him, || And who [is] he [who] stations himself before Me?
10 Nadie hay tan osado que lo despierte: ¿quién pues podrá estar delante de mí?
10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
11 Who has brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] Mine.
11 ¿Quién me ha anticipado, para que yo restituya? [Todo lo que hay] debajo del cielo es mío.
11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
12 I do not keep silent concerning his parts, || And the matter of might, || And the grace of his arrangement.
12 Yo no callaré sus miembros, ni lo de sus fuerzas y la gracia de su disposición.
12 “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
13 Who has uncovered the face of his clothing? Who enters within his double bridle?
13 ¿Quién descubrirá la delantera de su vestidura? ¿quién se llegará á él con freno doble?
13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?
14 Who has opened the doors of his face? Around his teeth [are] terrible.
14 ¿Quién abrirá las puertas de su rostro? Los órdenes de sus dientes espantan.
14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
15 A pride—strong ones of shields, || Shut up—a close seal.
15 La gloria [de su vestido son] escudos fuertes, cerrados entre sí estrechamente.
15 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
16 They draw near to one another, || And air does not enter between them.
16 El uno se junta con el otro, que viento no entra entre ellos.
16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17 They adhere to one another, || They stick together and are not separated.
17 Pegado está el uno con el otro, están trabados entre sí, que no se pueden apartar.
17 They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.
18 His sneezings cause light to shine, || And his eyes [are] as the eyelids of the dawn.
18 Con sus estornudos encienden lumbre, y sus ojos son como los párpados del alba.
18 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Flames go out of his mouth, sparks of fire escape.
19 De su boca salen hachas de fuego; centellas de fuego proceden.
19 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.
20 Smoke goes forth out of his nostrils, || As a blown pot and reeds.
20 De sus narices sale humo, como de una olla ó caldero que hierve.
20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 His breath sets coals on fire, || And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
21 Su aliento enciende los carbones, y de su boca sale llama.
21 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.
22 Strength lodges in his neck, || And grief exults before him.
22 En su cerviz mora la fortaleza, y espárcese el desaliento delante de él.
22 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
23 The flakes of his flesh have adhered—Firm on him—it is not moved.
23 Las partes momias de su carne están apretadas: están en él firmes, y no se mueven.
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.
24 His heart [is] firm as a stone, || Indeed, firm as the lower piece.
24 Su corazón es firme como una piedra, y fuerte como la muela de abajo.
24 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
25 The mighty are afraid at his rising, || From his breakings they keep themselves free.
25 De su grandeza tienen temor los fuertes, y á causa de su desfallecimiento hacen por purificarse.
25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
26 The sword of his overtaker does not stand, || Spear, dart, and breastplate.
26 Cuando alguno lo alcanzare, ni espada, ni lanza, ni dardo, ni coselete durará.
26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
27 He reckons iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.
27 El hierro estima por pajas, y el acero por leño podrido.
27 He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
28 The son of the bow does not cause him to flee, || Stones of the sling are turned into stubble by him.
28 Saeta no le hace huir; las piedras de honda se le tornan aristas.
28 The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
29 Darts have been reckoned as stubble, || And he laughs at the shaking of a javelin.
29 Tiene toda arma por hojarascas, y del blandir de la pica se burla.
29 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
30 Sharp points of clay [are] under him, || He spreads gold on the mire.
30 Por debajo [tiene] agudas conchas; Imprime [su] agudez en el suelo.
30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 He causes the deep to boil as a pot, || He makes the sea as a pot of ointment.
31 Hace hervir como una olla la profunda mar, y tórnala como una olla de ungüento.
31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He causes a path to shine after him, || One thinks the deep to be hoary.
32 En pos de sí hace resplandecer la senda, que parece que la mar es cana.
32 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
33 There is not on the earth his like, || That is made without terror.
33 No hay sobre la tierra su semejante, hecho para nada temer.
33 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
34 He sees every high thing, || He [is] king over all sons of pride.”
34 Menosprecia toda cosa alta: es rey sobre todos los soberbios.
34 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”
Cross references (28)
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
- 26 Job 39:21–24
- 28 Job 39:7; Habakkuk 1:10
- 29 2 Chronicles 26:14
- 30 Isaiah 41:15
- 32 Genesis 25:8; Job 38:30; Proverbs 16:31; Proverbs 20:29; Job 38:16
- 33 Job 40:19
- 34 Ezekiel 29:3; Psalm 73:6; Job 28:8; Job 26:12; Exodus 5:2
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences