Job 41
La Palabra (España)
41 No esperes atraparlo, que es inútil;
su sola presencia causa terror;
2 ¡nadie es capaz de provocarlo!
¿Quién, pues, será capaz de hacerme frente?
3 ¿Quién me ha venido con regalos
para que deba yo recompensarle?
¡Si todo bajo el cielo es mío!
4 ¿No hice que callara su arrogancia,
su firme palabra y su alegato?
5 ¿Quién le abrió el manto de su piel
y penetró por su doble coraza?
6 ¿Quién abrió las puertas de sus fauces,
tachonadas de dientes espantosos?
7 Su lomo son hileras de escudos,
bien apretados y sellados;
8 sus piezas se unen tan trabadas
que ni el aire se filtra entre ellas;
9 se sueldan unas con otras,
formando un bloque compacto.
10 Su estornudo proyecta destellos,
sus ojos parpadean como el alba.
11 Sus fauces lanzan antorchas,
proyectan chispas de fuego;
12 de su hocico sale una humareda,
como caldero que hierve atizado;
13 su aliento enciende carbones,
arroja llamaradas por su boca.
14 Su fuerza está en su cuello,
ante él tiembla el espanto.
15 Son compactos los pliegues de su carne;
como pegados a su cuerpo, ni se mueven.
16 Su corazón es duro como la roca,
resistente como piedra de moler.
17 Su majestad asusta a los dioses;
cuando oyen su estrépito, retroceden.
18 De nada sirve la espada contra él,
tampoco dardo, lanza o jabalina.
19 El hierro es paja para él,
madera podrida el bronce.
20 No hay flecha que lo ponga en fuga,
las piedras de la honda son como paja.
21 Paja le parece el mazo,
se ríe del silbar de las saetas.
22 Su vientre son lastras afiladas,
que arrastra como trillo por el lodo.
23 Hace hervir las aguas profundas,
convierte el mar en pebetero.
24 Deja tras de sí un surco luminoso,
una blanca cabellera en el Abismo.
25 Nadie lo iguala en la tierra,
pues es criatura sin miedo.
26 Se enfrenta a los más altivos,
es el rey de todas las bestias.
Job 41
Contemporary English Version
The Lord Continues
Can You Catch a Sea Monster?
41 (A) Can you catch a sea monster[a]
by using a fishhook?
Can you tie its mouth shut
with a rope?
2 Can it be led around
by a ring in its nose
or a hook in its jaw?
3 Will it beg for mercy?
4 Will it surrender
as a slave for life?
5 Can it be tied by the leg
like a pet bird
for little girls?
6 Is it ever chopped up
and its pieces bargained for
in the fish-market?
7 Can it be killed
with harpoons or spears?
8 Wrestle it just once—
that will be the end.
9 Merely a glimpse of this monster
makes all courage melt.
10 And if it is too fierce
for anyone to attack,
who would dare oppose me?
11 I am in command of the world
and in debt to no one.
12 What powerful legs,
what a stout body
this monster possesses!
13 Who could strip off its armor
or bring it under control
with a harness?
14 Who would try to open its jaws,
full of fearsome teeth?
* 15 Its back[b] is covered
with shield after shield,
16 firmly bound and closer together
17 than breath to breath.
When This Monster Sneezes
18 When this monster sneezes,
lightning flashes, and its eyes
glow like the dawn.
19 Sparks and fiery flames
explode from its mouth.
20 And smoke spews from its nose
like steam
from a boiling pot,
21 while its blazing breath
scorches everything in sight.
22 Its neck is so tremendous
that everyone trembles,
23 the weakest parts of its body
are harder than iron,
24 and its heart is stone.
25 When this noisy monster appears,
even the most powerful[c]
turn and run in fear.
26 No sword or spear can harm it,
27 and weapons of bronze or iron
are as useless as straw
or rotten wood.
28 Rocks thrown from a sling
cause it no more harm
than husks of grain.
This monster fears no arrows,
29 it simply smiles at spears,
and striking it with a stick
is like slapping it with straw.
30 As it crawls through the mud,
its sharp and spiny hide
tears the ground apart.
31 And when it swims down deep,
the sea starts churning
like boiling oil,
32 and it leaves behind a trail
of shining white foam.
33 No other creature on earth
is so fearless.
34 It is king of all proud creatures,
and it looks upon the others
as nothing.
Job 41
Darby Translation
41 Wilt thou draw out the leviathan with the hook, and press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Wilt thou put a rush-rope into his nose, and pierce his jaw with a spike?
3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak softly unto thee?
4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him as a bondman for ever?
5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, and wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6 Shall partners make traffic of him, will they divide him among merchants?
7 Wilt thou fill his skin with darts, and his head with fish-spears?
8 Lay thy hand upon him; remember the battle,—do no more!
9 Lo, hope as to him is belied: is not one cast down even at the sight of him?
10 None is so bold as to stir him up; and who is he that will stand before me?
11 Who hath first given to me, that I should repay [him]? [Whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.
12 I will not be silent as to his parts, the story of his power, and the beauty of his structure.
13 Who can uncover the surface of his garment? who can come within his double jaws?
14 Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
15 The rows of his shields are a pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal.
16 One is so near to another that no air can come between them;
17 They are joined each to its fellow; they stick together, and cannot be sundered.
18 His sneezings flash light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Out of his mouth go forth flames; sparks of fire leap out:
20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a boiling pot and cauldron.
21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22 In his neck lodgeth strength, and terror danceth before him.
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are fused upon him, they cannot be moved.
24 His heart is firm as a stone, yea, firm as the nether [millstone].
25 When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: they are beside themselves with consternation.
26 If any reach him with a sword, it cannot hold; neither spear, nor dart, nor harpoon.
27 He esteemeth iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.
28 The arrow will not make him flee; slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
29 Clubs are counted as stubble; he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.
30 His under parts are sharp potsherds: he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;
32 He maketh the path to shine after him: one would think the deep to be hoary.
33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34 He beholdeth all high things; he is king over all the proud beasts.
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