Job 41:1-34 NCV

[1] "Can you catch Leviathan on a fishhook or tie its tongue down with a rope? [2] Can you put a cord through its nose or a hook in its jaw? [3] Will it keep begging you for mercy and speak to you with gentle words? [4] Will it make an agreement with you and let you take it as your slave for life? [5] Can you make a pet of Leviathan as you would a bird or put it on a leash for your girls? [6] Will traders try to bargain with you for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? [7] Can you stick darts all over its skin or fill its head with fishing spears? [8] If you put one hand on it, you will never forget the battle, and you will never do it again! [9] There is no hope of defeating it; just seeing it overwhelms people. [10] No one is brave enough to make it angry, so who would be able to stand up against me? [11] No one has ever given me anything that I must pay back, because everything under the sky belongs to me. [12] "I will speak about Leviathan's arms and legs, its great strength and well-formed body. [13] No one can tear off its outer hide or poke through its double armor. [14] No one can force open its great jaws; they are filled with frightening teeth. [15] It has rows of shields on its back that are tightly sealed together. [16] Each shield is so close to the next one that no air can go between them. [17] They are joined strongly to one another; they hold on to each other and cannot be separated. [18] When it snorts, flashes of light are thrown out, and its eyes look like the light at dawn. [19] Flames blaze from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. [20] Smoke pours out of its nose, as if coming from a large pot over a hot fire. [21] Its breath sets coals on fire, and flames come out of its mouth. [22] There is great strength in its neck. People are afraid and run away. [23] The folds of its skin are tightly joined; they are set and cannot be moved. [24] Its chest is as hard as a rock, even as hard as a grinding stone. [25] The powerful fear its terrible looks and draw back in fear as it moves. [26] The sword that hits it does not hurt it, nor the arrows, darts, and spears. [27] It treats iron as if it were straw and bronze metal as if it were rotten wood. [28] It does not run away from arrows; stones from slings are like chaff to it. [29] Clubs feel like pieces of straw to it, and it laughs when they shake a spear at it. [30] The underside of its body is like broken pieces of pottery. It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing board. [31] It makes the deep sea bubble like a boiling pot; it stirs up the sea like a pot of oil. [32] When it swims, it leaves a shining path in the water that makes the sea look as if it had white hair. [33] Nothing else on earth is equal to it; it is a creature without fear. [34] It looks down on all those who are too proud; it is king over all proud creatures."