约伯记 第 41 章

¹你能用鱼钩钓上鳄鱼么？能用绳子压下他的舌头么？Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

²你能用绳索穿他的鼻子么？能用钩穿他的腮骨么？Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

³他岂向你连连恳求，说柔和的话么？Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

⁴岂肯与你立约，使你拿他永远作奴仆么？Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

⁵你岂可拿他当雀鸟玩耍么？岂可为你的幼女将他拴住么？Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

⁶搭伙的渔夫岂可拿他当货物么？能把他分给商人么？Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

⁷你能用倒钩枪扎满他的皮，能用鱼叉叉满他的头么？Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

⁸你按手在他身上，想与他争战，就不再这样行罢！Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

⁹人指望捉拿他是徒然的；一见他，岂不丧胆么？Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

¹⁰没有那么凶猛的人敢惹他。这样，谁能在我面前站立得住呢？None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

¹¹谁先给我甚么，使我偿还呢？天下万物都是我的。Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

¹²论到鳄鱼的肢体和其大力，并美好的骨骼，我不能缄默不言。I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

¹³谁能剥他的外衣？谁能进他上下牙骨之间呢？Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

¹⁴谁能开他的腮颊？他牙齿四围是可畏的。Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

¹⁵他以坚固的鳞甲为可夸，紧紧合闭，封得严密。His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

¹⁶这鳞甲一一相连，甚至气不得透入其间，One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

¹⁷都是互相联络、胶结，不能分离。They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

¹⁸他打喷嚏就发出光来；他眼睛好像早晨的光线（原文是眼皮）。By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

¹⁹从他口中发出烧着的火把，与飞迸的火星；Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

²⁰从他鼻孔冒出烟来，如烧开的锅和点着的芦苇。Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

²¹他的气点着煤炭，有火燄从他口中发出。His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

²²他颈项中存着劲力；在他面前的都恐吓蹦跳。In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

²³他的肉块互相联络，紧贴其身，不能摇动。The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

²⁴他的心结实如石头，如下磨石那样结实。His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

²⁵他一起来，勇士都惊恐，心里慌乱，便都昏迷。When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

²⁶人若用刀，用枪，用标枪，用尖枪扎他，都是无用。The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

²⁷他以铁为干草，以铜为烂木。He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

²⁸箭不能恐吓他使他逃避；弹石在他看为碎秸。The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

²⁹棍棒算为禾秸；他嗤笑短枪飕的响声。Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

³⁰他肚腹下如尖瓦片；他如钉耙经过淤泥。Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

³¹他使深渊开滚如锅，使洋海如锅中的膏油。He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

³²他行的路随后发光，令人想深渊如同白发。He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

³³在地上没有像他造的那样，无所惧怕。Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

³⁴凡高大的，他无不藐视；他在骄傲的水族上作王。He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.