The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan 1 AKJV Can you draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down? BSB BSB: “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 AKJV Can you put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? BSB BSB: Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 AKJV Will he make many supplications to you? will he speak soft words to you? BSB BSB: Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
4 AKJV Will he make a covenant with you? will you take him for a servant for ever? BSB BSB: Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
5 AKJV Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your maidens? BSB BSB: Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
6 AKJV Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? BSB BSB: Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
7 AKJV Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? BSB BSB: Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 AKJV Lay your hand on him, remember the battle, do no more. BSB BSB: If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
9 AKJV Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? BSB BSB: Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
10 AKJV None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? BSB BSB: No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
11 AKJV Who has prevented me, that I should repay him? whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. BSB BSB: Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
12 AKJV I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. BSB BSB: I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
13 AKJV Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? BSB BSB: Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
14 AKJV Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. BSB BSB: Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
15 AKJV His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. BSB BSB: His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
16 AKJV One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. BSB BSB: One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
17 AKJV They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered. BSB BSB: They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
18 AKJV By his neesings a light does shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. BSB BSB: His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 AKJV Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. BSB BSB: Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
20 AKJV Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. BSB BSB: Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 AKJV His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. BSB BSB: His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
22 AKJV In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. BSB BSB: Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
23 AKJV The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. BSB BSB: The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24 AKJV His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. BSB BSB: His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
25 AKJV When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. BSB BSB: When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
26 AKJV The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. BSB BSB: The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
27 AKJV He esteems iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. BSB BSB: He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
28 AKJV The arrow cannot make him flee: sling stones are turned with him into stubble. BSB BSB: No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
29 AKJV Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear. BSB BSB: A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
30 AKJV Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things on the mire. BSB BSB: His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 AKJV He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. BSB BSB: He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
32 AKJV He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. BSB BSB: He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
33 AKJV On earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. BSB BSB: Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!
34 AKJV He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. BSB BSB: He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”
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