Job 41
Svenska Folkbibeln
41 Ingen är så dumdristig att han retar denne.
Vem är då den som vågar sätta sig upp mot mig?
2 Vem har givit mig något som jag måste betala igen?
Mitt är allt som finns under himlen.
3 Jag vill inte tiga om hans lemmar,
om hans styrka och sköna gestalt.
4 Vem kan rycka av honom hans beklädnad?
Vem vågar sig in mellan hans båda käkar?
5 Vem kan öppna hans ansiktes dörr?
Omkring hans tänder bor skräck.
6 Sköldarnas rader sitter stolta på honom, sammanfogade
med hård försegling,
7 den ena tätt intill den andra,
ingen vindfläkt tränger in mellan dem,
8 de är sammanfogade med varandra,
de griper in i varandra och kan ej skiljas åt.
9 När han fnyser strålar det av ljus,
hans blickar är som morgonrodnadens ögonlock.
10 Hans gap sprutar ut flammor,
eldgnistor bryter fram.
11 Hans näsborrar bolmar ut rök
som från en kokande gryta på elden.
12 Hans andedräkt får kol att brinna,
ur hans gap flammar det av eld.
13 På hans nacke bor styrkan,
och skräck dansar framför honom.
14 Hudvecken på hans buk är fasta,
de sitter hårt och orubbligt.
15 Hans hjärta är hårt som sten,
lik den understa kvarnstenen.
16 När han reser sig bävar hjältar,
i ångest förlorar de fattningen.
17 Ett angripande svärd kan inte hålla stånd,
inte heller spjut, pil eller lans.
18 Han aktar järn som strå,
koppar som murket trä.
19 Han flyr ej för bågskott,
för honom är slungstenar som agnar.
20 Stridsklubbor aktar han som strå,
han skrattar åt rasslet av lansar.
21 Hans buk är som skarpa lerskivor,
i dyn sätter han spår som av en tröskvagn.
22 Han gör djupet kokande som en gryta,
han får havet att skumma som när man blandar salvor.
23 I hans kölvatten strålar vägen av ljus,
djupet synes bära silverhår.
24 På jorden finns inte hans like,
han skapades utan fruktan.
25 Han ser på allt som är upphöjt,
han är kung över allt som är stolt.
Job 41
English Standard Version
41 [a] “Can you draw out (A)Leviathan[b] with a fishhook
or press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Can you put (B)a rope in his nose
or pierce his jaw with (C)a hook?
3 Will he make many pleas to you?
Will he speak to you soft words?
4 Will he make a covenant with you
to take him for (D)your servant forever?
5 Will you play with him as with a bird,
or will you put him on a leash for your girls?
6 Will traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?
8 Lay your hands on him;
remember the battle—you will not do it again!
9 [c] Behold, the hope of a man is false;
he is laid low even at the sight of him.
10 No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.
Who then is he who can stand before me?
11 (E)Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
(F)Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12 “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.
13 Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who would come near him with a bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth is terror.
15 His back is made of[d] rows of shields,
shut up closely as with a seal.
16 One is so near to another
that no air can come between them.
17 They are (G)joined one to another;
they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
18 His sneezings flash forth light,
and his eyes are like (H)the eyelids of the dawn.
19 Out of his mouth go flaming torches;
sparks of fire leap forth.
20 Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke,
as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
21 His breath (I)kindles coals,
and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
22 In his neck abides strength,
and terror dances before him.
23 The folds of his flesh (J)stick together,
firmly cast on him and immovable.
24 His heart is hard as a stone,
hard as the lower millstone.
25 When he raises himself up, the mighty[e] are afraid;
at the crashing they are beside themselves.
26 Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,
nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27 He counts iron as straw,
and bronze as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee;
for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.
29 Clubs are counted as stubble;
he laughs at the rattle of javelins.
30 His underparts are like sharp (K)potsherds;
he spreads himself like (L)a threshing sledge on the mire.
31 He makes the deep boil like a pot;
he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 Behind him he leaves a shining wake;
one would think the deep to be white-haired.
33 (M)On earth there is not his like,
a creature without fear.
34 He sees everything that is high;
he is king over all the (N)sons of pride.”
1996, 1998 by Stiftelsen Svenska Folkbibeln
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