Job

1chỉ thấy nó thôi là đã rụng rời,

2đối diện với nó, chẳng ai đứng vững.

3Dưới gầm trời này, không có một ai !

4Sức mạnh vô song của nó, Ta sẽ kể ra.

5áo giáp kép của nó, ai đã chui vào ?

6Chung quanh răng nó, toàn là kinh hãi.

7dính chặt vào nhau như được đóng ấn.

8Chúng xếp khít vào nhau, khiến gió không sao lọt qua nổi.

9Chúng dính chặt vào nhau, thành một khối không thể tách rời.

10mắt nó tựa ánh bình minh rạng ngời.

11phun muôn ngàn tia lửa.

12như chảo sôi sùng sục trên lò.

13lửa hồng từ miệng nó bốc lên.

14kinh hoàng đi trước nó mở đường.

15nên rắn chắc, không sao lay chuyển.

16Tim nó cứng như đá, chắc như phần dưới thớt cối xay.

17Nó đứng lên, người hùng cũng run sợ, sóng cồn phải rút lui.

18mũi giáo, mũi lao hay mũi tên cũng thế.

19Nó coi sắt như rơm, coi đồng như gỗ mục,

20coi đá phóng như thể cọng rơm.

21tiếng lao rít chỉ khiến nó mỉm cười.

22trên đất bùn, nó duỗi dài như một cái trục lăn.

23làm cho biển cả nên như lò đốt hương.

24biến vực sâu thành mái đầu bạc.

25bẩm sinh nó không hề biết sợ.

26nó là vua của muôn loài ác thú.

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The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan

1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hookor tie down his tongue with a rope?

2Can you put a cord through his noseor pierce his jaw with a hook?

3Will he beg you for mercyor speak to you softly?

4Will he make a covenant with youto take him as a slave for life?

5Can you pet him like a birdor put him on a leash for your maidens?

6Will traders barter for himor divide him among the merchants?

7Can you fill his hide with harpoonsor his head with fishing spears?

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

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

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

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

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

13Who can strip off his outer coat?Who can approach him with a bridle?

14Who can open his jaws,ringed by his fearsome teeth?

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

16One scale is so near to anotherthat no air can pass between them.

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

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

19Firebrands stream from his mouth;fiery sparks shoot forth!

20Smoke billows from his nostrilsas from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

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

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

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

24His chest is as hard as a rock,as hard as a lower millstone!

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

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

27He regards iron as strawand bronze as rotten wood.

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

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

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

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

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

33Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!

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