| NET Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? | 1Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie his tongue down with a rope? |
| 2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? | 2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? |
| 3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? | 3Will he beg you for mercy or speak softly to you? |
| 4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? | 4Will he make a covenant with you so that you can take him as a slave forever? |
| 5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? | 5Can you play with him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls? |
| 6Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? | 6Will traders bargain for him or divide him among the merchants? |
| 7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? | 7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? |
| 8If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again! | 8Lay a hand on him. You will remember the battle and never repeat it! |
| 9See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. | 9Any hope of capturing him proves false. Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him? |
| 10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? | 10No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan; who then can stand against Me? |
| 11(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!) | 11Who confronted Me, that I should repay him? Everything under heaven belongs to Me. |
| 12I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. | 12I cannot be silent about his limbs, his power, and his graceful proportions. |
| 13Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? | 13Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double layer of armor? |
| 14Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome. | 14Who can open his jaws, surrounded by those terrifying teeth? |
| 15Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; | 15His pride is in his rows of scales, closely sealed together. |
| 16each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them. | 16One scale is so close to another that no air can pass between them. |
| 17They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated. | 17They are joined to one another, so closely connected they cannot be separated. |
| 18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn. | 18His snorting flashes with light, while his eyes are like the rays of dawn. |
| 19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth! | 19Flaming torches shoot from his mouth; fiery sparks fly out! |
| 20Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes. | 20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot or burning reeds. |
| 21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth. | 21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth. |
| 22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it. | 22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances before him. |
| 23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable. | 23The folds of his flesh are joined together, solid as metal and immovable. |
| 24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. | 24His heart is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone! |
| 25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw. | 25When Leviathan rises, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw because of his thrashing. |
| 26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart. | 26The sword that reaches him will have no effect, nor will a spear, dart, or arrow. |
| 27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. | 27He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. |
| 28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it. | 28No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him. |
| 29A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. | 29A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the sound of a javelin. |
| 30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. | 30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge. |
| 31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, | 31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like an ointment jar. |
| 32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair. | 32He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had gray hair! |
| 33The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear. | 33He has no equal on earth-- a creature devoid of fear! |
| 34It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud." | 34He surveys everything that is haughty; he is king over all the proud beasts. |
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