욥기 41장 BSB
- 1 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
- 2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
- 3 Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
- 4 Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
- 5 Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
- 6 Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
- 7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
- 8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
- 9 Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
- 10 No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
- 11 Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
- 12 I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
- 13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
- 14 Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
- 15 His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
- 16 One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
- 17 They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
- 18 His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
- 19 Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
- 20 Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
- 21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
- 22 Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
- 23 The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
- 24 His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
- 25 When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
- 26 The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
- 27 He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
- 28 No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
- 29 A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
- 30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
- 31 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
- 32 He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
- 33 Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!
- 34 He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”