1 GLT Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or tie up his jaws with a cord? BSB BSB: “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 GLT Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook? BSB BSB: Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 GLT Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak soft words to you? BSB BSB: Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
4 GLT Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever? BSB BSB: Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
5 GLT Will you play with him as you would with a bird? Will you tie him up for your servant girls? BSB BSB: Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
6 GLT Will the groups of fishermen bargain for him? Will they divide him up to trade among the merchants? BSB BSB: Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
7 GLT Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? BSB BSB: Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 GLT Put your hand on him just once, and you will remember the battle and do it no more. BSB BSB: If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
9 GLT See, the hope of anyone who does that is a lie; will not anyone be thrown down to the ground just by the sight of him? BSB BSB: Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
10 GLT None is so fierce that he dare stir Leviathan up; who, then, is he who can stand before me? BSB BSB: No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
11 GLT Who has first given anything to me in order that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole sky is mine. BSB BSB: Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
12 GLT I will not keep silent concerning Leviathan’ s legs, nor about the matter of his strength, nor about his graceful form. BSB BSB: I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
13 GLT Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double armor? BSB BSB: Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
14 GLT Who can open the doors of his face— ringed with his teeth, which are a terror? BSB BSB: Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
15 GLT his back is made up of rows of shields, tight together as with a close seal. BSB BSB: His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
16 GLT 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 GLT They are joined to each other; they stick together, so that they cannot be pulled apart. BSB BSB: They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
18 GLT Light flashes out from his snorting; his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning dawn. BSB BSB: His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 GLT Out of his mouth go burning torches, sparks of fire leap out. BSB BSB: Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
20 GLT Out of his nostrils goes smoke like a boiling pot on a fire that has been fanned to be very hot. BSB BSB: Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 GLT His breath kindles coals into flame; fires go out from his mouth. BSB BSB: His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
22 GLT In his neck is strength, and terror dances in front of him. BSB BSB: Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
23 GLT The folds of his flesh are joined together; they are firm on him; they cannot be moved. BSB BSB: The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24 GLT His heart is as hard as a stone— indeed, as hard as a lower millstone. BSB BSB: His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
25 GLT When he raises himself up, even the gods become afraid; because of fear, they draw back. BSB BSB: When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
26 GLT If a sword strikes him, it does nothing— and neither does a spear, an arrow, or any other pointed weapon. BSB BSB: The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
27 GLT He thinks of iron as if it were straw, and of bronze as if it were rotten wood. BSB BSB: He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
28 GLT An arrow cannot make him flee; to him sling stones become chaff. BSB BSB: No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
29 GLT Clubs are regarded as straw; he laughs at the whirring flight of a spear. BSB BSB: A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
30 GLT His lower parts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery; he leaves a spreading trail in the mud as if he were a threshing sledge. BSB BSB: His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 GLT He makes the deep to foam up like a pot of boiling water; 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 GLT He makes a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had gray hair. BSB BSB: He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
33 GLT On earth there is no equal to him, who has been made to live without fear. BSB BSB: Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!
34 GLT He sees everything that is proud; he is king over all the sons of pride.” BSB BSB: He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”
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