Job 41:1-34 NIrV

[1] “Job, can you pull Leviathan out of the sea with a fishhook? Can you tie down its tongue with a rope? [2] Can you put a rope through its nose? Can you stick a hook through its jaw? [3] Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak gently to you? [4] Will it make an agreement with you? Can you make it your slave for life? [5] Can you make a pet out of it like a bird? Can you put it on a leash for the young women in your house? [6] Will traders offer you something for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? [7] Can you fill its body with harpoons? Can you throw fishing spears into its head? [8] If you touch it, it will fight you. Then you will remember never to touch it again! [9] No one can possibly control Leviathan. Just looking at it will terrify you. [10] No one dares to wake it up. So who can possibly stand up to me? [11] Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything on earth belongs to me. [12] “Now I will speak about the Leviathan’s legs. I will talk about its strength and its graceful body. [13] Who can strip off its outer coat? Who would try to pierce its double coat of armor? [14] Who dares to open its jaws? Its mouth is filled with terrifying teeth. [15] Its back has rows of shields that are close together. [16] Each one is so close to the next one that not even air can pass between them. [17] They are joined tightly to one another. They stick together and can’t be forced apart. [18] Leviathan’s snorting throws out flashes of light. Its eyes shine like the first light of day. [19] Flames spray out of its mouth. Sparks of fire shoot out. [20] Smoke pours out of its nose. It is like smoke from a boiling pot over burning grass. [21] Its breath sets coals on fire. Flames fly out of its mouth. [22] Its neck is very strong. People run to get out of its way. [23] Its rolls of fat are close together. They are firm and can’t be moved. [24] Its chest is as hard as rock. It is as hard as a lower millstone. [25] When Leviathan rises up, even mighty people are terrified. They run away when it moves around wildly. [26] A sword that strikes it has no effect. Neither does a spear or dart or javelin. [27] It treats iron as if it were straw. It crushes bronze as if it were rotten wood. [28] Arrows do not make it run away. Stones that are thrown from slings are like straw hitting it. [29] A club seems like a piece of straw to it. It laughs when it hears a javelin rattling. [30] Its undersides are like broken pieces of pottery. It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing sled. [31] It makes the ocean churn like a boiling pot. It stirs up the sea like perfume someone is making. [32] It leaves a shiny trail behind it. You would think the ocean had white hair. [33] Nothing on earth is equal to Leviathan. That creature is not afraid of anything. [34] It looks down on proud people. It rules over all those who are proud.”