Job

1你能用魚鉤釣上鱷魚嗎？ 能用繩子壓下牠的舌頭嗎？

2你能用繩索穿牠的鼻子嗎？ 能用鉤穿牠的腮骨嗎？

3牠豈向你連連懇求， 說柔和的話嗎？

4豈肯與你立約， 使你拿牠永遠作奴僕嗎？

5你豈可拿牠當雀鳥玩耍嗎？ 豈可為你的幼女將牠拴住嗎？

6搭夥的漁夫豈可拿牠當貨物嗎？ 能把牠分給商人嗎？

7你能用倒鉤槍扎滿牠的皮， 能用魚叉叉滿牠的頭嗎？

8你按手在牠身上，想與牠爭戰， 就不再這樣行吧！

9人指望捉拿牠是徒然的； 一見牠，豈不喪膽嗎？

10沒有那麼兇猛的人敢惹牠。 這樣，誰能在我面前站立得住呢？

11誰先給我甚麼，使我償還呢？ 天下萬物都是我的。

12論到鱷魚的肢體和其大力，並美好的骨骼， 我不能緘默不言。

13誰能剝牠的外衣？ 誰能進牠上下牙骨之間呢？

14誰能開牠的腮頰？ 牠牙齒四圍是可畏的。

15牠以堅固的鱗甲為可誇， 緊緊合閉，封得嚴密。

16這鱗甲一一相連， 甚至氣不得透入其間，

17都是互相聯絡、膠結， 不能分離。

18牠打噴嚏就發出光來； 牠眼睛好像早晨的光線。

19從牠口中發出燒着的火把， 與飛迸的火星；

20從牠鼻孔冒出煙來， 如燒開的鍋和點着的蘆葦。

21牠的氣點着煤炭， 有火焰從牠口中發出。

22牠頸項中存着勁力； 在牠面前的都恐嚇蹦跳。

23牠的肉塊互相聯絡， 緊貼其身，不能搖動。

24牠的心結實如石頭， 如下磨石那樣結實。

25牠一起來，勇士都驚恐， 心裏慌亂，便都昏迷。

26人若用刀，用槍，用標槍， 用尖槍扎牠，都是無用。

27牠以鐵為乾草， 以銅為爛木。

28箭不能恐嚇牠使牠逃避； 彈石在牠看為碎稭。

29棍棒算為禾稭； 牠嗤笑短槍颼的響聲。

30牠肚腹下如尖瓦片； 牠如釘耙經過淤泥。

31牠使深淵開滾如鍋， 使洋海如鍋中的膏油。

32牠行的路隨後發光， 令人想深淵如同白髮。

33在地上沒有像牠造的那樣， 無所懼怕。

34凡高大的，牠無不藐視； 牠在驕傲的水族上作王。

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.”