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The Book of Job

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- Kapitel 41 -

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“Think also about crocodiles. Can you catch them with a fishhook or fasten their jaws with a rope?
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Can you put ropes through their noses to control them or thrust hooks through their jaws?
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Will they plead with you to act mercifully toward them or use sweet talk in order that you will not harm them?
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Will they make an agreement with you to work for you, to be your slaves as long as they live?
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Can you make them into pets like you do birds? Can you put a leash around their necks so that your servant girls can play with them?
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Will men who partner in selling fish try to sell them in the market? Will they cut a crocodile up into pieces and sell the meat?
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Can you pierce crocodiles through their hides by throwing fishing spears at them? Can you pierce their heads with a harpoon?
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If you grab one of them with your hands, it will give you a battle that you will never forget, and you will never try to do it again!
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It is useless to even hope to subdue them. Anyone who tries to subdue one of them will fall to the ground out of fear.
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No one dares to make a crocodile angry. So, since I am much more powerful than they are, who would dare to cause me to be angry?
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Also, everything on the earth is mine. Therefore, no one is able to give anything to me and require me to pay money for it!
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I will tell you about how strong crocodiles’ legs are and how strong their well formed bodies are.
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Can anyone strip off their hides? Can anyone pierce through their double layer of armor?
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Can anyone pry open their jaws, which have terrible teeth in them?
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They have rows of scales on their back which are as hard as rock.
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The scales are very close together; not even air can get between them.
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The scales are joined very closely to each other, and they cannot be separated.
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When crocodiles sneeze, the tiny drops of water that come out of their noses sparkle in the sunlight. Their eyes are red like the rising sun.
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It is as though sparks of fire poured out of their mouths.
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Smoke pours out of their nostrils as steam comes out of a pot that is put over a very, very hot fire.
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Their breath can cause coals to blaze and flames to shoot out from their mouths.
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Their necks are very strong; wherever they go, they make people very afraid.
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The folds in their flesh are very close together and are very hard.
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They are fearless because the inner parts of their bodies are as hard as a rock, as hard as the lower millstone on which people grind grain.
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When they rise up, they cause even very strong people to be terrified. As a result, people fall back.
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People cannot injure them with swords; spears, arrows, or other weapons with sharp points cannot injure them, either.
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They certainly are not afraid of weapons made of straw or rotten wood, but they are not even afraid of weapons made of iron or bronze!
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Shooting arrows at them does not cause them to run away. Hurling stones at them from a sling is like hurling bits of chaff at them.
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They are not afraid of clubs anymore than they would be afraid of men throwing bits of straw at them, and they laugh when they hear a spear coming at them.
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Their bellies are covered with scales that are as sharp as broken pieces of pottery. When they drag themselves through the mud, their bellies tear up the ground like a plow.
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They stir up the water and cause it to foam as they churn through it.
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As they go through the water, their wakes glisten. People who see it would think that the foam had become white hair.
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There are no creatures on earth that I have created as fearless as crocodiles.
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They are the proudest of all the creatures; they are like kings over all the other wild animals.”
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Can you draw out Leviathan(a) with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
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Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
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Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
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Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
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Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
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Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
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Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
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Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
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Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?
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None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
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Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
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I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
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Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?
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Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
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Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
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One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
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They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.
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His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
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Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.
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Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
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His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.
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There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
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The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.
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His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
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When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
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If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
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He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
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The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
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Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
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His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
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He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
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He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
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On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
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He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

Fußnoten

(a)41:1 Leviathan is a name for a crocodile or similar creature.