Job 41 Complete Jewish Bible

41 ⁽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.”