bbe - 41

bbe@Job:41:1 @Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

bbe@Job:41:2 @Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?

bbe@Job:41:3 @Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

bbe@Job:41:4 @Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

bbe@Job:41:5 @Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

bbe@Job:41:6 @Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

bbe@Job:41:7 @Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?

bbe@Job:41:8 @Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

bbe@Job:41:9 @Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!

bbe@Job:41:10 @He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

bbe@Job:41:11 @Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

bbe@Job:41:12 @I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

bbe@Job:41:13 @Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

bbe@Job:41:14 @Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

bbe@Job:41:15 @His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

bbe@Job:41:16 @One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

bbe@Job:41:17 @They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.

bbe@Job:41:18 @His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

bbe@Job:41:19 @Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

bbe@Job:41:20 @Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.

bbe@Job:41:21 @His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

bbe@Job:41:22 @Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him.

bbe@Job:41:23 @The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved.

bbe@Job:41:24 @His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.

bbe@Job:41:25 @When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

bbe@Job:41:26 @The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

bbe@Job:41:27 @Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

bbe@Job:41:28 @The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

bbe@Job:41:29 @A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

bbe@Job:41:30 @Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

bbe@Job:41:31 @The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

bbe@Job:41:32 @After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.

bbe@Job:41:33 @On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.

bbe@Job:41:34 @Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.

Job 41