The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan 1 DRA Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord? BSB BSB: “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 DRA Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle? BSB BSB: Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 DRA Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee? BSB BSB: Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
4 DRA Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever? BSB BSB: Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
5 DRA Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids? BSB BSB: Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
6 DRA Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him? BSB BSB: Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
7 DRA Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with his head? BSB BSB: Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 DRA Lay thy 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 DRA Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down. BSB BSB: Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
10 DRA I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel: for who can resist my countenance? BSB BSB: No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
11 DRA Who hath given me before 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 DRA I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication. BSB BSB: I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
13 DRA Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth? BSB BSB: Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
14 DRA 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 DRA His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another. BSB BSB: His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
16 DRA One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them: BSB BSB: One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
17 DRA They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated. BSB BSB: They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
18 DRA His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning. BSB BSB: His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 DRA Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire. BSB BSB: Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
20 DRA Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling. BSB BSB: Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 DRA His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth. BSB BSB: His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
22 DRA In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face. BSB BSB: Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
23 DRA The members of his flesh cleave one to another: he shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place. BSB BSB: The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24 DRA His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith’s anvil. BSB BSB: His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
25 DRA When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves. BSB BSB: When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
26 DRA When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, 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 DRA For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. BSB BSB: He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
28 DRA The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble. BSB BSB: No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
29 DRA As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear. BSB BSB: A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
30 DRA The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire. BSB BSB: His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 DRA He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil. BSB BSB: He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
32 DRA A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing old. BSB BSB: He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
33 DRA There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one. BSB BSB: Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!
34 DRA He beholdeth every high thing, he is 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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