Job 41 | BSB Bible Study

Job 41:1 (BSB)
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Job 41:2 (BSB)
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Job 41:3 (BSB)
Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Job 41:4 (BSB)
Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

Job 41:5 (BSB)
Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

Job 41:6 (BSB)
Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

Job 41:7 (BSB)
Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

Job 41:8 (BSB)
If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

Job 41:9 (BSB)
Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

Job 41:10 (BSB)
No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

Job 41:11 (BSB)
Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

Job 41:12 (BSB)
I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

Job 41:13 (BSB)
Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

Job 41:14 (BSB)
Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

Job 41:15 (BSB)
His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

Job 41:16 (BSB)
One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

Job 41:17 (BSB)
They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

Job 41:18 (BSB)
His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Job 41:19 (BSB)
Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

Job 41:20 (BSB)
Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

Job 41:21 (BSB)
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

Job 41:22 (BSB)
Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

Job 41:23 (BSB)
The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

Job 41:24 (BSB)
His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

Job 41:25 (BSB)
When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

Job 41:26 (BSB)
The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

Job 41:27 (BSB)
He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

Job 41:28 (BSB)
No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

Job 41:29 (BSB)
A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

Job 41:30 (BSB)
His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

Job 41:31 (BSB)
He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

Job 41:32 (BSB)
He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

Job 41:33 (BSB)
Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!

Job 41:34 (BSB)
He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”

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