The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan 1 CPDV Can you draw out the leviathan with a hook, and can you bind his tongue with a cord? BSB BSB: “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 CPDV Can you place a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with an arm band? BSB BSB: Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 CPDV Will he offer many prayers to you, or speak to you quietly? BSB BSB: Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
4 CPDV Will he form a covenant with you, and will you accept him as a servant forever? BSB BSB: Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
5 CPDV Will you play with him as with a bird, or tether him for your handmaids? BSB BSB: Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
6 CPDV Will your friends cut him into pieces, will dealers distribute him? BSB BSB: Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
7 CPDV Will you fill up bags with his hide, and let his head be used as a home for fishes? BSB BSB: Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 CPDV Place your hand upon him; remember the battle and speak no more. BSB BSB: If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
9 CPDV Behold, his hope will fail him, and in the sight of all, he will be thrown down. BSB BSB: Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
10 CPDV I will not rouse him, as the cruel would do, for who is able to withstand my countenance? BSB BSB: No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
11 CPDV Who has given to me beforehand, so that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine. BSB BSB: Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
12 CPDV I will not spare him, nor his powerful words and counterfeit attempts at supplication. BSB BSB: I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
13 CPDV Who can reveal the beauty of his garment? And who can enter the middle of his mouth? BSB BSB: Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
14 CPDV Who can open the doors of his face? I gave fear to the circle of his teeth. BSB BSB: Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
15 CPDV His body is like shields fused together, like dense scales pressed over one another. BSB BSB: His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
16 CPDV One is joined to another, and not even air can pass between them. BSB BSB: One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
17 CPDV They adhere to one another, and they hold themselves in place and will not be separated. BSB BSB: They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
18 CPDV His sneezing has the brilliance of fire, 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 CPDV Lamps proceed from his mouth, like torches of fire burning brightly. BSB BSB: Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
20 CPDV Smoke passes out of his nostrils, like a pot that is heated and boiling. BSB BSB: Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 CPDV His breath causes coal to burn, and a flame comes forth from his mouth. BSB BSB: His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
22 CPDV Strength dwells in his neck, and destitution goes before his presence. BSB BSB: Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
23 CPDV The parts of his body work in harmony together. He will send lightning bolts against him, and they will not be carried to another place. BSB BSB: The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24 CPDV His heart will be as hard as a stone and as dense as a blacksmith’s anvil. BSB BSB: His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
25 CPDV When he will be raised up, the angels will be afraid, and, because they are terrified, they will purify themselves. BSB BSB: When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
26 CPDV When a sword catches up with him, it will not be able to settle in, nor a spear, nor a breastplate. BSB BSB: The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
27 CPDV For he will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood. BSB BSB: He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
28 CPDV The archer will not cause him to flee; the stones of the sling have been turned into stubble for him. BSB BSB: No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
29 CPDV He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear. BSB BSB: A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
30 CPDV The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay. BSB BSB: His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 CPDV He will make the depths of the sea boil like a pot, and he will set it to bubble just as ointments do. BSB BSB: He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
32 CPDV A path will shine after him; he will esteem the abyss as if it were weakening with age. BSB BSB: He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
33 CPDV There is no power on the earth that is being compared to him, who has been made so that he fears no one. BSB BSB: Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!
34 CPDV He sees every prominent thing; he is king over all the sons of arrogance. BSB BSB: He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”
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