en_cjb - Job 41 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ [(9)] “Look, any hope [of capturing him] is futile — one would fall prostrate at the very sight of him.

² [(10)] No one is fierce enough to rouse him, so who can stand up to me?

³ [(11)] Who has given me anything and made me pay it back? Everything belongs to me under all of heaven.

⁴ [(12)] “I have more to say about his limbs, his strong talk, and his matchless strength.

⁵ [(13)] Who can strip off his [scaly] garment? Who can enter his jaws?

⁶ [(14)] Who can pry open the doors of his face, so close to his terrible teeth?

⁷ [(15)] “His pride is his rows of scales, tightly sealed together —

⁸ [(16)] one is so close to the next that no air can come between them;

⁹ [(17)] they are stuck one to another, interlocked and impervious.

¹⁰ [(18)] “When he sneezes, light flashes out; his eyes are like the shimmer of dawn.

¹¹ [(19)] From his mouth go fiery torches, and sparks come flying out.

¹² [(20)] His nostrils belch steam like a caldron boiling on the fire.

¹³ [(21)] His breath sets coals ablaze; flames pour from his mouth.

¹⁴ [(22)] “Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances ahead of him [as he goes].

¹⁵ [(23)] The layers of his flesh stick together; they are firm on him, immovable.

¹⁶ [(24)] His heart is as hard as a stone, yes, hard as a lower millstone.

¹⁷ [(25)] When he rears himself up, the gods are afraid, beside themselves in despair.

¹⁸ [(26)] “If a sword touches him, it won’t stick; neither will a spear, or a dart, or a lance.

¹⁹ [(27)] He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

²⁰ [(28)] An arrow can’t make him flee; for him, slingstones are so much chaff.

²¹ [(29)] Clubs count as hay, and he laughs at a quivering javelin.

²² [(30)] His belly is as sharp as fragments of pottery, so he moves across the mud like a threshing-sledge.

²³ [(31)] “He makes the depths seethe like a pot, he makes the sea [boil] like a perfume kettle.

²⁴ [(32)] He leaves a shining wake behind him, making the deep seem to have white hair.

²⁵ [(33)] “On earth there is nothing like him, a creature without fear.

²⁶ [(34)] He looks straight at all high things. He is king over all proud beasts.”