1“Job, can you pull Leviathan out of the sea with a fishhook?
Can you tie down its tongue with a rope?
2Can you put a rope through its nose?
Can you stick a hook through its jaw?
3Will it keep begging you for mercy?
Will it speak gently to you?
4Will it make an agreement with you?
Can you make it your slave for life?
5Can you make a pet out of it like a bird?
Can you put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
6Will traders offer you something for it?
Will they divide it up among the merchants?
7Can you fill its body with harpoons?
Can you throw fishing spears into its head?
8If you touch it, it will fight you.
Then you will remember never to touch it again!
9No one can possibly control Leviathan.
Just looking at it will terrify you.
10No one dares to wake it up.
So who can possibly stand up to me?
11Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
Everything on earth belongs to me.
12“Now I will speak about the Leviathan’s legs.
I will talk about its strength and its graceful body.
13Who can strip off its outer coat?
Who would try to pierce its double coat of armor?
14Who dares to open its jaws?
Its mouth is filled with terrifying teeth.
15Its back has rows of shields
that are close together.
16Each one is so close to the next one
that not even air can pass between them.
17They are joined tightly to one another.
They stick together and can’t be forced apart.
18Leviathan’s snorting throws out flashes of light.
Its eyes shine like the first light of day.
19Flames spray out of its mouth.
Sparks of fire shoot out.
20Smoke pours out of its nose.
It is like smoke from a boiling pot over burning grass.
21Its breath sets coals on fire.
Flames fly out of its mouth.
22Its neck is very strong.
People run to get out of its way.
23Its rolls of fat are close together.
They are firm and can’t be moved.
24Its chest is as hard as rock.
It is as hard as a lower millstone.
25When Leviathan rises up,
even mighty people are terrified.
They run away when it moves around wildly.
26A sword that strikes it has no effect.
Neither does a spear or dart or javelin.
27It treats iron as if it were straw.
It crushes bronze as if it were rotten wood.
28Arrows do not make it run away.
Stones that are thrown from slings are like straw hitting it.
29A club seems like a piece of straw to it.
It laughs when it hears a javelin rattling.
30Its undersides are like broken pieces of pottery.
It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing sled.
31It makes the ocean churn like a boiling pot.
It stirs up the sea like perfume someone is making.
32It leaves a shiny trail behind it.
You would think the ocean had white hair.
33Nothing on earth is equal to Leviathan.
That creature is not afraid of anything.
34It looks down on proud people.
It rules over all those who are proud.”
1“So wubetumi de darewa atwe ɔdɛnkyɛmmirampɔn
anaa wubetumi de hama akyekyere ne tɛkrɛma?
2So wubetumi de hama afa ne hwenem,
anaasɛ wubetumi de darewa aso nʼabogye mu?
3Ɔbɛkɔ so asrɛ wo sɛ hu no mmɔbɔ ana?
Ɔne wo bɛkasa brɛoo ana?
4Ɔbɛpene ne wo ayɛ apam
ama wode no ayɛ wʼakoa afebɔɔ ana?
5Wubetumi de no ayɛ abɛbɛ te sɛ anomaa
anaa wubetumi asa no hama de no ama wo mmabea?
6So aguadifo bɛpɛ sɛ wode no bedi nsesagua?
Wɔbɛkyekyɛ ne mu ama aguadifo ana?
7Wubetumi de mpeaw awowɔ ne were mu
anaasɛ wode mpataa mpɛmɛ bɛwowɔ ne ti ho?
8Wode wo nsa ka no a,
wobɛkae sɛnea ɔbɛwosow ne ho, nti worenyɛ saa bio!
9Ɔkwan biara nni hɔ a wobɛfa so akyere no;
ani a ɛbɔ ne so kɛkɛ no ma nnipa dwudwo.
10Obiara ntumi nsi ne bo nhwanyan no.
Afei hena na obetumi ne me adi asi?
11Hena na mede no ka a ɛsɛ sɛ mitua?
Biribiara a ɛhyɛ ɔsoro ase no yɛ me de.
12“Me werɛ remfi sɛ mɛka nʼakwaa,
nʼahoɔden ne ne bɔbea fɛfɛ no ho asɛm.
13Hena na obetumi aworɔw ne ho ahama,
na hena na ɔde nnareka bɛkɔ ne ho?
14Hena na obetumi abue nʼabogye,
a ɛse a ɛyɛ hu ayɛ no ma no?
15Nʼakyi wɔ bona a ɛsesa so,
ɛtetare so a ɔkwan nna mu koraa;
16sɛnea ɛtetare so fa no nti,
mframa biara mfa ntam.
17Ɛtoatoa mu denneennen a
emu ntumi ntetew.
18Sɛ ɔnwansi a, ɛpepa gya;
nʼaniwa aba te sɛ adekyeenim hann.
19Agyatɛn turuw fi nʼanom
na nsramma turuturuw fi mu.
20Wusiw sen fi ne hwene mu
te sɛ ɔsɛn a esi gya so.
21Ne home ma gyabiriw ano sɔ,
na ogyaframa tu fi nʼanom.
22Ne kɔn mu wɔ ahoɔden ankasa;
wɔn a wohu no no aba mu bu.
23Ne were a abubu agu so no yɛ peperee;
ayɛ pemee a ɛnka ne ho.
24Ne koko so yɛ den sɛ ɔbotan
ɛyɛ den sɛ awiyammo.
25Sɛ ɔsɔre a, ahoɔdenfo bɔ huboa;
sɛ ɔwosow ne ho a woguan.
26Afoa wɔ no a, ɛnka no,
peaw, pɛmɛ ne agyan nso saa ara.
27Ɔfa dade sɛ wura bi
na kɔbere mfrafrae te sɛ dua a awu bi ma no.
28Agyan mma no nguan;
ahwimmo mu aboa yɛ ntɛtɛ ma no.
29Kontibaa te sɛ sare wɔ nʼani so;
na ɔserew pɛmɛ nnyigyei.
30Abon a ano yɛ nnam tuatua ne yafunu so.
Ɔtwe ne ho ase wɔ fam fa dontori mu a, eyiyi akam.
31Ɔma bun mu huru sɛ nsu a ɛwɔ ɛsɛn mu
na onunu po mu sɛ srade a ɛwɔ kuku mu.
32Nea ɔbɛfa no, ɛhɔ nsu no pa yerɛw yerɛw;
na obi besusuw sɛ po bun adan ayɛ dwen.
33Asase so biribiara ne no nsɛ.
Ɔyɛ abɔde a onsuro hwee.
34Ommu wɔn a wɔyɛ ahantan no mu biara;
ɔyɛ wɔn a wɔyɛ ahomaso no nyinaa so hene.”
