Job 41 · Clearspring

The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan

¹“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?+ ²Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?+ ³Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?+ ⁴Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?+ ⁵Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?+ ⁶Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?+ ⁷Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? ⁸If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!+ ⁹Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?+ ¹⁰No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?+ ¹¹Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.+ ¹²I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.+ ¹³Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?+ ¹⁴Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?+ ¹⁵His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.+ ¹⁶One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them. ¹⁷They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated. ¹⁸His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.+ ¹⁹Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!+ ²⁰Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.+ ²¹His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.+ ²²Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.+ ²³The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.+ ²⁴His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!+ ²⁵When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.+ ²⁶The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.+ ²⁷He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. ²⁸No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.+ ²⁹A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.+ ³⁰His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.+ ³¹He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment. ³²He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!+ ³³Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!+ ³⁴He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”+

The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan

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