Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
“Can
you
pull
in
Leviathan with a hook
or tie
down his tongue with a rope
?
Canst
thou
draw
out
leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press
down his tongue with a cord
?
Can
you
put a cord
through
his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Canst
thou
put a rope
into
his nose ?
Or pierce his jaw through
with a hook?
Will he beg
you
for
mercy
or speak to
you
softly
?
Will he make
many
supplications
unto
thee?
Or will
he
speak soft
words
unto
thee
?
Will he make a covenant with you
to
take him as
a slave
for life
?
Will he make a covenant with thee,
That
thou
shouldest
take him for
a servant
for ever
?
Can
you
pet
him like
a bird or put
him on
a
leash
for your
maidens?
Wilt
thou
play
with
him as
with
a bird ?
Or wilt
thou
bind
him for thy
maidens?
Will traders
barter
for
him or
divide
him among the merchants?
Will the
bands
`of
fishermen'
make
traffic
of
him ?
Will
they
part
him among the merchants?
Can
you
fill his hide
with harpoons
or his head with fishing
spears?
Canst
thou
fill his skin
with barbed
irons,
Or his head with fish-
spears?
If
you
lay a
hand on
him ,
you
will
remember the battle and never
repeat
it!
Lay thy
hand upon
him ;
Remember the battle ,
and do
so
no
more.
Surely
hope of overcoming
him is false.
Is
not the sight of him overwhelming
?
Behold,
the
hope of him is in
vain:
Will
not one
be
cast
down
even
at
the sight of him?
No
one
is so fierce as
to
rouse
Leviathan.
Then
who is able
to
stand against
Me?
None
is so fierce that
he
dare
stir
him
up;
Who then
is he
that
can
stand before
me?
Who has
given to
Me that I should repay him? Everything
under heaven is Mine.
Who hath
first
given unto
me ,
that I should repay him? `Whatsoever
is'
under the
whole
heaven is mine.
I cannot
keep silent
about
his limbs, his power
and
graceful
form
.
I will
not
keep silence
concerning
his limbs, Nor
his mighty
strength,
nor
his
goodly
frame
.
Who can strip off his outer coat
? Who can
approach
him
with
a
bridle
?
Who can strip off his outer garment
? Who shall
come
within
his
jaws
?
Who can open his jaws,
ringed
by
his fearsome
teeth ?
Who can open the
doors
of
his face?
Round
about
his teeth is
terror.
His rows
of
scales are his pride, tightly
sealed
together.
`
His '
strong
scales are `
his '
pride, Shut
up
together `as
with'
a
close
seal
.
One scale
is so near to another that no air can pass
between them.
One is so near to another ,
That no air can come
between them.
They are joined to
one another; they clasp
and
cannot be separated
.
They are joined one to
another; They stick
together,
so
that
they
cannot be sundered
.
His snorting
flashes
with
light, and his eyes are like the rays
of dawn
.
His sneezings
flash
forth
light, And his eyes are like the eyelids
of the
morning
.
Firebrands
stream
from
his mouth ;
fiery
sparks shoot
forth !
Out
of
his mouth go
burning
torches,
And
sparks of
fire
leap
forth .
Smoke
billows
from
his nostrils as from
a boiling pot over
burning reeds
.
Out
of
his nostrils a
smoke
goeth,
As of
a boiling pot and
`
burning '
rushes
.
His breath sets
coals ablaze
, and flames
pour
from his mouth.
His breath kindleth
coals, And a
flame
goeth
forth
from his mouth.
Strength
resides
in his neck, and dismay
leaps
before him.
In his neck abideth
strength
, And terror
danceth
before him.
The folds
of his flesh are tightly
joined ;
they are firm and
immovable
.
The flakes
of his flesh are joined together:
They are firm upon
him;
they
cannot
be
moved
.
His chest
is as hard
as a rock
, as
hard
as a
lower
millstone !
His heart
is as firm
as a stone;
Yea
, firm
as the
nether
millstone .
When Leviathan
rises
up, the mighty are terrified;
they withdraw
before
his
thrashing
.
When he
raiseth
himself
up, the mighty are afraid:
By
reason
of
consternation
they are
beside
themselves
.
The sword that
reaches
him
has
no
effect
, nor does
the spear or
dart or
arrow
.
If
one
lay
at
him
with
the sword, it
cannot
avail;
Nor the spear ,
the
dart ,
nor
the
pointed
shaft
.
He regards
iron as straw and bronze
as rotten wood.
He counteth
iron as straw ,
`
And '
brass
as rotten wood.
No
arrow can
make him flee ;
slingstones
become
like
chaff
to
him.
The
arrow cannot
make him flee :
Sling-stones
are
turned
with
him into
stubble
.
A
club
is
regarded
as straw,
and
he laughs
at the sound
of the lance
.
Clubs
are
counted
as stubble:
He laugheth
at the rushing
of the javelin
.
His undersides
are jagged
potsherds,
spreading
out
the
mud
like a threshing sledge
.
His underparts
are `
like '
sharp
potsherds:
He
spreadeth
`as
it
were'
a threshing -wain
upon
the
mire
.
He makes
the depths
seethe
like a cauldron;
he makes
the sea like a jar
of ointment.
He maketh
the deep
to
boil
like a pot:
He maketh
the sea like a pot
of ointment.
He leaves
a glistening
wake
behind
him; one would think the deep had
white
hair!
He maketh
a path
to
shine
after
him; One would think the deep to
be
hoary.
Nothing
on
earth is his equal—
a
creature
devoid
of
fear !
Upon
earth there
is not
his like,
That
is
made
without
fear .
He looks
down
on
all
the
haughty;
he is king over all the proud
. ”
He beholdeth
everything
that
is
high:
He is king over all the sons
of
pride
.
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