Job 41

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

1 “你岂能用鱼钩钓海怪， 用绳索绑住它的舌头？

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

2 你岂能用绳子穿它的鼻子， 用钩子穿它的腮骨？

3 Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

3 它岂会向你连连求饶， 对你说柔和的话？

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

4 它岂肯与你立约， 一生做你的奴隶？

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

5 你岂能拿它当小鸟玩耍， 或拴起来给幼女取乐？

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

6 渔夫们岂能把它当货物出售， 卖给商人？

7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

7 你岂能在它皮上戳满长矛， 头上插满鱼叉？

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

8 你动手碰碰它， 就知道是场恶战，绝不会再碰。

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

9 企图捕捉它的都会失望， 人看到它就会心惊胆战。

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

10 再凶猛的人也不敢惹它。 这样，谁能在我面前站立得住？

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

11 谁给过我什么，要我偿还呢？ 天下万物都是我的。

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

12 “关于它的四肢、大力和健美的身体， 我不能缄默不言。

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

13 谁能剥去它的外皮？ 谁能给它戴上辔头？

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

14 谁能打开它的嘴巴？ 它的牙齿令人恐惧。

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

15 它的脊背覆着行行鳞甲， 牢牢地密封在一起，

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

16 紧密无间， 连气也透不进去。

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

17 鳞甲彼此相连相扣， 无法分开。

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

18 它打喷嚏时，水光四射； 它的眼睛亮如晨光；

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

19 口中喷出火炬， 迸出火星；

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

20 鼻孔冒烟， 如沸腾的锅和燃烧的芦苇；

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

21 呼气可点燃煤炭， 口中喷出火焰；

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

22 颈项强而有力， 恐惧在它前面开路；

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

23 身上的皱褶紧密相连， 牢牢地密封在一起；

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

24 心坚如石， 硬如磨石。

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

25 它一站起来，勇士都害怕， 见它冲来，他们慌忙退缩。

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

26 刀剑挡不住它， 长矛、标枪、尖戟也无能为力。

27 He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

27 它视铁如干草， 视铜如朽木。

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

28 利箭吓不跑它， 弹石在它看来只是碎秸；

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

29 棍棒无异于秸秆， 它嗤笑投来的标枪。

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

30 它腹部有锋利的瓦片， 在淤泥上留下道道耙痕。

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

31 它使深渊如锅翻腾， 使大海如油锅滚动。

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

32 它游过后留下一道波光， 使深渊仿佛披上银发。

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

33 地上没有动物能与它相比， 像它那样无所畏惧。

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

34 它藐视群雄， 在高傲的百兽中称王。”