41 In Hebrew texts 41:1-8 is numbered 40:25-32, and 41:9-34 is numbered 41:1-26. 1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook
or tie down its tongue with a rope?
2Can you put a cord through its nose
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3Will it keep begging you for mercy?
Will it speak to you with gentle words?
4Will it make an agreement with you
for you to take it as your slave for life?
5Can you make a pet of it like a bird
or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
6Will traders barter for it?
Will they divide it up among the merchants?
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?
8If you lay a hand on it,
you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
9Any hope of subduing it is false;
the mere sight of it is overpowering.
10No one is fierce enough to rouse it.
Who then is able to stand against me?
11Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me.
12“I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,
its strength and its graceful form.
13Who can strip off its outer coat?
Who can penetrate its double coat of armor41:13 Septuagint; Hebrew double bridle?
14Who dares open the doors of its mouth,
ringed about with fearsome teeth?
15Its back has41:15 Or Its pride is its rows of shields
tightly sealed together;
16each is so close to the next
that no air can pass between.
17They are joined fast to one another;
they cling together and cannot be parted.
18Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19Flames stream from its mouth;
sparks of fire shoot out.
20Smoke pours from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21Its breath sets coals ablaze,
and flames dart from its mouth.
22Strength resides in its neck;
dismay goes before it.
23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm and immovable.
24Its chest is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.
25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;
they retreat before its thrashing.
26The sword that reaches it has no effect,
nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
27Iron it treats like straw
and bronze like rotten wood.
28Arrows do not make it flee;
slingstones are like chaff to it.
29A club seems to it but a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
32It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had white hair.
33Nothing on earth is its equal—
a creature without fear.
34It looks down on all that are haughty;
it is king over all that are proud.”
1“Kodi ungathe kukoka ngʼona ndi mbedza ya nsomba
kapena kukanikiza lilime lake pansi ndi chingwe?
2Kodi ungathe kumanga chingwe mʼmphuno mwake,
kapena kubowola nsagwada zake ndi mbedza?
3Kodi ngʼonayo idzakupempha kuti uyichitire chifundo?
Kodi idzakuyankhula ndi mawu ofatsa?
4Kodi idzachita nawe mgwirizano
kuti uyisandutse kapolo wako mpaka muyaya?
5Kodi udzasewera nayo ngati mbalame,
kapena kuyimangirira kuti atsikana ako asewere nayo?
6Kodi anthu adzayitsatsa malonda?
Nanga amalondawo nʼkugawanagawana nyama yake kuti akagulitse?
7Kodi chikopa chake ungathe kuchilasa ndi zisonga,
kapena kubowola mutu wake ndi nthungo zophera nsomba?
8Ukayiputa udziwe kuti pali nkhondo,
ndipo iweyo sudzabwereranso.
9Chiyembekezo choti nʼkuyigonjetsa ndi chabodza;
kungoyiona kokha, ndithu iwe kumangodzigwera wekha.
10Palibe wolimba mtima kuti ndi kuyiputa.
Ndani angalimbe mtima kulimbana ndi Ine?
11Kodi ndani anandipatsa kanthu kuti ndimubwezere?
Zonse za pansi pa thambo ndi zanga.
12“Sindidzaleka kuyankhula za ziwalo zake za chirombocho,
za mphamvu zake ndiponso za maonekedwe a thupi lake.
13Ndani angasende chikopa chake?
Ndani angayiyandikire kuti abowole chikopa chake cholimbacho?
14Ndani angatsekule kukamwa kwake,
pakamwa pamene pazunguliridwa ndi mano ochititsa mantha?
15Kumsana kwake kuli mizere ya mamba
onga zishango zolumikizanalumikizana;
16Mambawo ndi olukanalukana
kotero kuti mpweya sungathe kulowa pakati pake.
17Ndi olumikizanalumikizana;
ndi omatirirana kwambiri kotero kuti sangathe kulekana.
18Kuyetsemula kwake kumatulutsa mbaliwali;
maso ake amawala ngati kuwala kwa mʼbandakucha.
19Mʼkamwa mwake mumatuluka nsakali zamoto ndipo
mumathetheka mbaliwali zamoto.
20Mʼmphuno mwake mumatuluka utsi
ngati wa mʼnkhali yowira yomwe ili pa moto wa bango.
21Mpweya wake umayatsa makala,
ndipo malawi amoto amatuluka mʼkamwa mwake.
22Mphamvu zake zili mʼkhosi mwake;
aliyense wokumana nayo amangoti njenjenje ndi mantha.
23Minyewa ya thupi lake ndi yolumikizana ndipo
ndi yokhwima kwambiri ndi yolimba.
24Pachifuwa pake ndi powuma ngati mwala,
ndi pa gwaa, ngati mwala wamphero.
25Ngʼonayo ikangovuwuka,
ndi anthu amphamvu omwe amaopa; amabwerera mʼmbuyo, kuthawa.
26Ngakhale ikanthidwe ndi lupanga, lupangalo silichita kanthu,
ngakhale mkondo, muvi ndi nthungo, zonse zimalephera.
27Chitsulo imachiyesa ngati phesi chabe
ndi mkuwa ngati chikuni chowola.
28Muvi sungathe kuyithawitsa,
miyala imene ayilasa nayo imangoyinyenyanyenya.
29Zibonga zimakhala ngati ziputu;
imangoseka pamene akuyibaya ndi nthungo.
30Mamba a ku mimba kwake ali ngati chopunthira chakunthwa ndipo
imasiya mkukuluzi mʼmatope ngati galeta lopunthira tirigu.
31Imagadutsa madzi ozama ngati madzi a mʼnkhali,
imachititsa nyanja kuti iwire ngati mbiya yoyengera mafuta.
32Kumbuyo kwake imasiya nthubwitubwi zambee,
kotero kuti munthu angaganize kuti nyanja yachita imvi.
33Pa dziko lapansi palibe china chofanana nacho,
nʼcholengedwa chopanda mantha.
34Chimanyoza nyama zina zonse;
icho chija ndi mfumu ya nyama zonse.”
