Job 41, side by side

¹“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

¹Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

²Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

²Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

³Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

³Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

⁴Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?

⁴Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

⁵Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

⁵Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

⁶Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?

⁶Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

⁷Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

⁷Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

⁸Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

⁸Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

⁹Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?

⁹Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

¹⁰None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

¹⁰None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

¹¹Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

¹¹Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

¹²“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

¹²I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

¹³Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?

¹³Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

¹⁴Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

¹⁴Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

¹⁵Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

¹⁵His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

¹⁶One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

¹⁶One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

¹⁷They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.

¹⁷They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

¹⁸His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

¹⁸By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

¹⁹Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.

¹⁹Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

²⁰Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

²⁰Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

²¹His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.

²¹His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

²²There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

²²In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

²³The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.

²³The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

²⁴His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

²⁴His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

²⁵When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

²⁵When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

²⁶If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

²⁶The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

²⁷He counts iron as straw; and bronze as rotten wood.

²⁷He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

²⁸The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

²⁸The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

²⁹Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

²⁹Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

³⁰His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

³⁰Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

³¹He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

³¹He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

³²He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

³²He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

³³On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.

³³Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

³⁴He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

³⁴He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.