Berean Standard Bible

Job 41:12-34

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?114Who 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 nostrilsas 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 strawand 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.230His 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.”

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1. Job 41:13 Or Who can come within his double mail? ↩
2. Job 41:29 Or javelin ↩

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