New English Translation

Job 41:8-21 New English Translation (NET)

8. If you lay your hand on it,you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again!

9. (41:1) See, his expectation is wrong,he is laid low even at the sight of it.

10. Is it not fierce when it is awakened?Who is he, then, who can stand before it?

11. (Who has confronted me that I should repay?Everything under heaven belongs to me!)

12. I will not keep silent about its limbs,and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.

13. Who can uncover its outer covering?Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor?

14. Who can open the doors of its mouth?Its teeth all around are fearsome.

15. Its back has rows of shields,shut up closely together as with a seal;

16. each one is so close to the nextthat no air can come between them.

17. They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated.

18. Its snorting throws out flashes of light;its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.

19. Out of its mouth go flames,sparks of fire shoot forth!

20. Smoke streams from its nostrilsas from a boiling pot over burning rushes.

21. Its breath sets coals ablazeand a flame shoots from its mouth.