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    Job · 34 verses

    Job 41

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    Leviathan is offered, for a moment, the sort of domestic future usually reserved for a bird: petting, a leash, and the maidens waiting nearby.

    No bargain with Leviathanvv. 1–11

    The questions begin with hooks, cords, ropes, spears, and the cheerful possibility of making Leviathan a lifelong slave. Then the scene takes a mercantile turn: traders might barter for him, merchants divide him, and all the ordinary apparatus of capture is invited to have a go. It will not do. A hand laid on him is a battle remembered once and never repeated; even the hope of overcoming him is false. The speaker then places Leviathan's fierceness beside his own, before declaring everything under heaven his.

    The king beneath the white-haired deepvv. 12–34

    The speaker cannot keep silent about Leviathan's limbs, power, and graceful form. His scales are sealed so tightly that no air passes between them; his snorting flashes, his eyes resemble dawn, and fire, sparks, smoke, and flame issue from his mouth and nostrils. Weapons become straw, rotten wood, chaff, and mere club-noise. Beneath him are jagged potsherds, while the depths seethe and the sea becomes like a jar of ointment. Behind him trails a wake that makes the deep look white-haired. Nothing on earth equals him: fearless, disdainful of the haughty, and king over all the proud.

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    1. Job 41:1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

    2. Job 41:2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

    3. Job 41:3Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

    4. Job 41:4Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

    5. Job 41:5Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

    6. Job 41:6Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

    7. Job 41:7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

    8. Job 41:8If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

    9. Job 41:9Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

    10. Job 41:10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

    11. Job 41:11Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

    12. Job 41:12I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

    13. Job 41:13Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

    14. Job 41:14Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

    15. Job 41:15His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

    16. Job 41:16One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

    17. Job 41:17They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

    18. Job 41:18His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

    19. Job 41:19Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

    20. Job 41:20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

    21. Job 41:21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

    22. Job 41:22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

    23. Job 41:23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

    24. Job 41:24His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

    25. Job 41:25When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

    26. Job 41:26The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

    27. Job 41:27He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

    28. Job 41:28No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

    29. Job 41:29A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

    30. Job 41:30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

    31. Job 41:31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

    32. Job 41:32He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

    33. Job 41:33Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!

    34. Job 41:34He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 11Romans 11:35“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”
    • 11Psalms 24:1A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
    • 111 Chronicles 29:11–14Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
    • 1Psalms 104:26There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
    • 1Job 3:8May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
    • 1Isaiah 27:1In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
    • 1Psalms 74:14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
    • 11Job 35:7If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
    • 11Deuteronomy 10:14Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
    • 11Psalms 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
    • 2Isaiah 37:29Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
    • 111 Corinthians 10:26for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”
    • 11Exodus 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
    • 18Job 3:9May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
    • 34Ezekiel 29:3Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’
    • 4Exodus 21:6then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.

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