The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan 1 ULT Will you draw out Leviathan with a hook? Or will you tie its tongue with a rope? BSB BSB: “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 ULT Will you put a rope into its nose, or will you pierce its jaw with a hook? BSB BSB: Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 ULT Will it multiply supplications to you? If it will speak tender{ things} to you? BSB BSB: Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
4 ULT Will it cut a covenant with you? Will you take it for a servant forever? BSB BSB: Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
5 ULT Will you play with it as{ with} a bird? Or will you tie it for your girls? BSB BSB: Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
6 ULT Will partners bargain over it? Will they divide it among merchants? BSB BSB: Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
7 ULT Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with spears of fish? BSB BSB: Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 ULT Put your hand on it; remember the battle; do not continue! BSB BSB: If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
9 ULT Behold, his hope is deceived; is one{ not} cast down even at its appearance? BSB BSB: Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
10 ULT { One is} not fierce, that he will awaken it. Then who{ is} he{ who} will stand to my face? BSB BSB: No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
11 ULT Who has anticipated me and I shall repay? Beneath all of the skies, it{ is} to me. BSB BSB: Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
12 ULT I will not keep silent{ about} its limbs or the matter of its strengths or the beauty of its form. BSB BSB: I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
13 ULT Who has removed the face of its clothing? Into the double of its bridle, who has entered? BSB BSB: Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
14 ULT The doors of its face, who has opened? Around its teeth{ is} terror! BSB BSB: Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
15 ULT Rows of shields{ are its} pride, shut together{ with} a tight seal. BSB BSB: His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
16 ULT One with one, they are close, and air does not come between them. BSB BSB: One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
17 ULT A man with his brother, they are joined together; they clasp themselves and they do not separate themselves. BSB BSB: They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
18 ULT Light flashes from its snortings, and its eyes{ are} like the eyelids of the dawn. BSB BSB: His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 ULT Flames come from its mouth; sparks of fire leap out! BSB BSB: Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
20 ULT From its nostrils goes smoke like a blown pot and a reed. BSB BSB: Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 ULT Its breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out from its mouth. BSB BSB: His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
22 ULT Strength lodges in its neck, and fear leaps up to its face. BSB BSB: Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
23 ULT The folds of its flesh join together; they are firm on it, they will not be moved. BSB BSB: The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24 ULT Its heart is hard like stone; yes, it is hard like a lower millstone. BSB BSB: His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
25 ULT At its rising, the mighty fear; from its thrashings, they withdraw. BSB BSB: When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
26 ULT The sword reaching it does not stand; the spear, the dart, the javelin. BSB BSB: The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
27 ULT It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood. BSB BSB: He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
28 ULT The son of the bow does not make it flee; with it, the stones of the sling are turned into chaff. BSB BSB: No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
29 ULT Clubs are regarded as chaff, and it laughs at the rattling of a spear. BSB BSB: A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
30 ULT Beneath it are points of a shard; it spreads{ like} a threshing sledge upon the mud. BSB BSB: His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 ULT It makes the deep boil like a pot; it makes the sea like an ointment pot. BSB BSB: He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
32 ULT It makes a path shine behind it; one considers the deep{ to be} white- haired. BSB BSB: He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
33 ULT Upon the dust there is not its equal, the one made without fear. BSB BSB: Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!
34 ULT It sees all of the high; it{ is} king over all of the sons of pride.” BSB BSB: He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”
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