Christian Standard Bible

King James Bible

1Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie his tongue down with a rope?

1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

3Will he beg you for mercy or speak softly to you?

3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

4Will he make a covenant with you so that you can take him as a slave forever?

4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

5Can you play with him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?

5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

6Will traders bargain for him or divide him among the merchants?

6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

8Lay a hand on him. You will remember the battle and never repeat it!

8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

9Any hope of capturing him proves false. Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?

9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

10No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan; who then can stand against me?

10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

11Who confronted me, that I should repay him? Everything under heaven belongs to me.

11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

12I cannot be silent about his limbs, his power, and his graceful proportions.

12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

13Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?

13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

14Who can open his jaws, surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

15His pride is in his rows of scales, closely sealed together.

15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

16One scale is so close to another that no air can pass between them.

16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

17They are joined to one another, so closely connected they cannot be separated.

17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

18His snorting flashes with light, while his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

19Flaming torches shoot from his mouth; fiery sparks fly out!

19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.

20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth.

21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances before him.

22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

23The folds of his flesh are joined together, solid as metal and immovable.

23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

24His heart is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

25When Leviathan rises, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw because of his thrashing.

25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

26The sword that reaches him will have no effect, nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

27He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

28No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him.

28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

29A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.

29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like an ointment jar.

31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

32He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had gray hair!

32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

33He has no equal on earth--a creature devoid of fear!

33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

34He surveys everything that is haughty; he is king over all the proud beasts.

34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

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