Job 41

你能用鱼钩钓上鳄鱼吗？能用绳子压下牠的舌头吗？

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

你能用绳索穿牠的鼻子吗？能用钩穿牠的腮骨吗？

Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

牠岂向你连连恳求，说柔和的话吗？

Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

岂肯与你立约，使你拿牠永远作奴仆吗？

Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

你岂可拿牠当雀鸟玩耍吗？岂可为你的幼女将牠拴住吗？

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

搭伙的渔夫岂可拿牠当货物吗？能把牠分给商人吗？

Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

你能用倒钩枪扎满牠的皮，能用鱼叉叉满牠的头吗？

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

你按手在牠身上，想与牠争战，就不再这样行吧！

Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

人指望捉拿牠是徒然的；一见牠，岂不丧胆吗？

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

没有那么凶猛的人敢惹牠。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?

谁先给我什么，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.

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.

谁能剥牠的外衣？谁能进牠上下牙骨之间呢？

Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

谁能开牠的腮颊？牠牙齿四围是可畏的。

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

牠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.

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.

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.

牠打喷嚏就发出光来；牠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.

从牠口中发出烧著的火把，与飞迸的火星；

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

从牠鼻孔冒出烟来，如烧开的锅和点著的芦苇。

Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

牠的气点著煤炭，有火焰从牠口中发出。

His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

牠颈项中存著劲力；在牠面前的都恐吓蹦跳。

In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

牠的肉块互相联络，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.

牠的心结实如石头，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.

牠一起来，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.

人若用刀，用枪，用标枪，用尖枪扎牠，都是无用。

The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

牠以铁为干草，以铜为烂木。

He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

箭不能恐吓牠使牠逃避；弹石在牠看为碎秸。

The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

棍棒算为禾秸；牠嗤笑短枪飕的响声。

Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

牠肚腹下如尖瓦片；牠如钉耙经过淤泥。

Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

牠使深渊开滚如锅，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.

牠行的路随后发光，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.

在地上没有像牠造的那样，无所惧怕。

Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

凡高大的，牠无不藐视；牠在骄傲的水族上作王。

He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.