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Passage Lookup: Job 41

N84New International Version (1984)
NIVNew International Version
"Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
Job 41:1
"Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Job 41:2
Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?
Job 41:3
Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?
Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?
Job 41:4
Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?
Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
Job 41:5
Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
Job 41:6
Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
Job 41:7
Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
Job 41:8
If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
Job 41:9
Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.
No one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
Job 41:10
No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?
Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
Job 41:11
Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
"I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.
Job 41:12
"I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and its graceful form.
Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?
Job 41:13
Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor?
Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
Job 41:14
Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?
His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
Job 41:15
Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
Job 41:16
each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
Job 41:17
They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
Job 41:18
Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
Job 41:19
Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
Job 41:20
Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
Job 41:21
Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.
Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.
Job 41:22
Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
Job 41:23
The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
Job 41:24
Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
Job 41:25
When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.
The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
Job 41:26
The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
Job 41:27
Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
Arrows do not make him flee; slingstones are like chaff to him.
Job 41:28
Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.
A club seems to him but a piece of straw; he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
Job 41:29
A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
Job 41:30
Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
Job 41:31
It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
Behind him he leaves a glistening wake; one would think the deep had white hair.
Job 41:32
It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.
Nothing on earth is his equal- a creature without fear.
Job 41:33
Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.
He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud."
Job 41:34
It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud."
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