Job 41
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The LORD Continues: Can You Conquer Leviathan, Job?
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Job 41:1–34
in English Bibles is Job 40:25–41:26 in the Hebrew Bible. “Can you pull Leviathan out ⌞of the water⌟ with a fishhook
or tie its tongue down with a rope?
2Can you put a ring through its nose
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3Will it plead with you for mercy
or speak tenderly to you?
4Will it make an agreement with you
so that you can take it as your permanent slave?
5Can you play with it like a bird
or keep it on a leash for your girls?
6Will traders bargain over it
and divide it among the merchants?
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?
8Lay your hand on it.
Think of the struggle!
Don’t do it again!
9Certainly, any hope ⌞of defeating it⌟ is a false hope.
Doesn’t the sight of it overwhelm you?
10No one is brave enough to provoke Leviathan.
Then who can stand in front of me? #41:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts “it.”
11Who can confront me that I should repay him?
Everything under heaven belongs to me!
12“I will not be silent about Leviathan’s limbs,
its strength, or its graceful form.
13Who can skin its hide?
Who can approach it with a harness?
14Who can open its closed mouth?
Its teeth are surrounded by terror.
15Its back has rows of scales that are tightly sealed.
16One is so close to the other
that there is no space between them.
17Each is joined to the other.
They are locked together and inseparable.
18When Leviathan sneezes, it gives out a flash of light.
Its eyes are like the first rays of the dawn.
19Flames shoot from its mouth.
Sparks of fire fly from it.
20Smoke comes from its nostrils
like a boiling pot heated over brushwood.
21Its breath sets coals on fire,
and a flame pours from its mouth.
22Strength resides in its neck,
and power dances in front of it.
23The folds of its flesh stick to each other.
They are solid and cannot be moved.
24Its chest is solid like a rock,
solid like a millstone.
25“The mighty are afraid when Leviathan rises.
Broken down, they draw back.
26A sword may strike it but not pierce it.
Neither will a spear, lance, or dart.
27It considers iron to be like straw
and bronze to be like rotten wood.
28An arrow won’t make it run away.
Stones from a sling turn to dust against it.
29It considers clubs to be like stubble,
and it laughs at a rattling javelin.
30Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery.
It stretches out like a threshing #41:30 Threshing is the process of beating stalks to separate them from the grain. sledge on the mud.
31It makes the deep sea boil like a pot.
It stirs up the ocean like a boiling kettle.
32It leaves a shining path behind it
so that the sea appears to have silvery hair.
33Nothing on land can compare to it.
It was made fearless.
34It looks down on all high things.
It is king of everyone who is arrogant.”
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Job 41
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1“Job, mabibingwit mo kaya ang dragon na Leviatan? Matatalian mo kaya ang nguso niya ng lubid? 2Matatalian mo ba ng lubid ang ilong niya o mailalagay mo kaya ang kawil sa kanyang panga? 3Kapag nagawa mo iyon, makikiusap kaya siyang lagi sa iyo na pakawalan mo siya, o di kayaʼy magmakaawa siya sa iyo? 4Makikipagkasundo kaya siya sa iyo na magpapaalipin habang buhay? 5Magagawa mo kaya siyang parang alagang ibon o maibibigay mo ba siya sa iyong mga anak#41:5 mga anak: o, mga alipin. na babae para kanilang laruin? 6May negosyante kayang bibili sa kanya at hihiwa-hiwain siya para ipagbili? 7Tatalaban kaya ng matulis na sibat ang kanyang ulo o balat? 8Kapag hinawakan mo siya, maaalala mo kung gaano ito kahirap hulihin at masasabi mong hinding-hindi ka na uulit. 9Walang saysay ang mga pagsisikap na hulihin siya, dahil makita mo pa lang siyaʼy maduduwag ka na. 10Kung sa kanya ngaʼy walang mangangahas gumambala, sino pa kayang mangangahas na lumaban sa akin? 11Sino ang makapagsasabing may utang na loob ako sa kanya? Ang lahat dito sa mundo ay akin.
12“Sasabihin ko pa sa iyo ang tungkol sa katawan ng Leviatan at kung gaano siya kalakas at kamakapangyarihan. 13Sinong makakatuklap ng kanyang balat o makakatusok nito? 14Sino ang makakapagpabuka ng kanyang bunganga? Ang mga ngipin niyaʼy nakakatakot. 15Ang likod niyaʼy may makakapal na kaliskis na parang panangga na nakasalansan. 16-17Sobrang dikit-dikit na ito na kahit ang hangin ay hindi makakalusot at walang makakatuklap nito. 18Kapag sumisinga siya, may lumalabas na parang kidlat at ang kanyang mga mata ay mapula na parang bukang-liwayway. 19Bumubuga siya ng apoy, 20at umuusok ang ilong na ang usok ay parang nagmumula sa kumukulong palayok na may nagliliyab na panggatong. 21Ang hininga niyaʼy makapagpapabaga ng uling dahil sa apoy na lumalabas sa kanyang bunganga. 22Nasa leeg ang kanyang lakas, at ang makakita sa kanya ay kinikilabutan. 23Kahit ang kanyang mga laman ay siksik at matitigas. 24Matigas din ang puso niya, kasintigas ng gilingang bato. 25Kapag siyaʼy tumayo, takot na takot pati ang mga makapangyarihang tao. 26Walang espada, sibat, pana, o palasong makakapanakit sa kanya. 27Para sa kanya ang bakal ay kasinlambot lang ng dayami at ang tanso ay para lang bulok na kahoy. 28Hindi niya iniilagan ang mga pana. Ang mga batong tumatama sa kanyaʼy nagiging parang mga ipa lang. 29Ang mga kahoy na ipinapalo ay parang mga dayami lang sa kanya. At pinagtatawanan lang niya ang mga humahagibis na sibat na isinisibat sa kanya. 30Ang tiyan niyaʼy may mga kaliskis na matalim, na parang mga basag na bote. Kaya kapag gumagapang siya sa putik, nag-iiwan siya ng mga bakas. 31Kinakalawkaw niya ang dagat hanggang bumula na parang kumukulong tubig sa palayok o kumukulong langis sa kaldero. 32Ang tubig na kanyang dinadaanan ay bumubula, parang puting buhok kung tingnan. 33Wala siyang katulad dito sa mundo. Isa siyang nilalang na walang kinatatakutan. 34Minamaliit niya ang lahat ng mayayabang na hayop. Siya ang hari ng lahat ng mababangis na hayop sa gubat.”
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