[[Job 40|<< Job 40]] | [[Job|Job]] | [[Job 42|Job 42 >>]] ### Job 41 1 CANST thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord _which_ thou lettest down? ^1 2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? ^2 3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft _words_ unto thee? ^3 4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? ^4 5 Wilt thou play with him as _with_ a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? ^5 6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? ^6 7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? ^7 8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. ^8 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not _one_ be cast down even at the sight of him? ^9 10 None _is_ _so_ fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? ^10 11 Who has prevented me, that I should repay _him?_ _whatsoever_ _is_ under the whole heaven is mine. ^11 12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. ^12 13 Who can discover the face of his garment? _or_ who can come _to_ _him_ with his double bridle? ^13 14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth _are_ terrible round about. ^14 15 _His_ scales _are_ _his_ pride, shut up together _as_ _with_ a close seal. ^15 16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. ^16 17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered. ^17 18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes _are_ like the eyelids of the morning. ^18 19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, _and_ sparks of fire leap out. ^19 20 Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as _out_ of a seething pot or caldron. ^20 21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ^21 22 In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. ^22 23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. ^23 24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether _millstone_. ^24 25 When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. ^25 26 The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. ^26 27 He esteems iron as straw, _and_ brass as rotten wood. ^27 28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. ^28 29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear. ^29 30 Sharp stones _are_ under him: he spreads sharp pointed things upon the mire. ^30 31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. ^31 32 He makes a path to shine after him; _one_ would think the deep _to_ _be_ hoary. ^32 33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. ^33 34 He beholds all high _things:_ he _is_ a king over all the children of pride. ^34