Verse 26
Job 41:26
New Living Translation
26
No sword can stop it,<br>no spear, dart, or javelin.<br>
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֵֽת כָּל גָּבֹ֥הַּ יִרְאֶ֑ה ה֝֗וּא מֶ֣לֶךְ עַל כָּל בְּנֵי שָֽׁחַץ
English Translation
He sees all that is high; he is a king over all the sons of pride.
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Chapter 41 Context
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“Can you catch Leviathan with a hook<br>or put a noose around its jaw?<br>
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Can you tie it with a rope through the nose<br>or pierce its jaw with a spike?<br>
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Will it beg you for mercy<br>or implore you for pity?<br>
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Will it agree to work for you,<br>to be your slave for life?<br>
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Can you make it a pet like a bird,<br>or give it to your little girls to play with?<br>
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Will merchants try to buy it<br>to sell it in their shops?<br>
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Will its hide be hurt by spears<br>or its head by a harpoon?<br>
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If you lay a hand on it,<br>you will certainly remember the battle that follows.<br>You won’t try th...
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No, it is useless to try to capture it.<br>The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down.<br>
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And since no one dares to disturb it,<br>who then can stand up to me?<br>
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Who has given me anything that I need to pay back?<br>Everything under heaven is mine.<br>
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“I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs<br>and its enormous strength and graceful form.<br>
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Who can strip off its hide,<br>and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?<br>
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Who could pry open its jaws?<br>For its teeth are terrible!<br>
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The scales on its back are like rows of shields<br>tightly sealed together.<br>
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They are so close together<br>that no air can get between them.<br>
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Each scale sticks tight to the next.<br>They interlock and cannot be penetrated.<br>
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“When it sneezes, it flashes light!<br>Its eyes are like the red of dawn.<br>
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Lightning leaps from its mouth;<br>flames of fire flash out.<br>
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Smoke streams from its nostrils<br>like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.<br>
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Its breath would kindle coals,<br>for flames shoot from its mouth.<br>
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“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck<br>strikes terror wherever it goes.<br>
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Its flesh is hard and firm<br>and cannot be penetrated.<br>
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Its heart is hard as rock,<br>hard as a millstone.<br>
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When it rises, the mighty are afraid,<br>gripped by terror.<br>
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No sword can stop it,<br>no spear, dart, or javelin.<br>
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Iron is nothing but straw to that creature,<br>and bronze is like rotten wood.<br>
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Arrows cannot make it flee.<br>Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.<br>
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Clubs are like a blade of grass,<br>and it laughs at the swish of javelins.<br>
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Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass.<br>It plows up the ground as it drags through th...
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“Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion.<br>It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment.<b...
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The water glistens in its wake,<br>making the sea look white.<br>
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Nothing on earth is its equal,<br>no other creature so fearless.<br>
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Of all the creatures, it is the proudest.<br>It is the king of beasts.”<br>
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