{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/job/41","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:39:58.404Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":41,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":40,"nextChapter":42,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":34},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"|Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"One is so near to another, that no air can come between them."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 41 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 41](https://primebible.com/web/job/41)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/41 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}