Berean Standard Bible

Job 41:4-26

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?1Everything 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?214Who 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 anotherthat 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.

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Notes

1. Job 41:11 Cited in Romans 11:35 ↩
2. Job 41:13 Or Who can come within his double mail? ↩

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