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41:1 你能用鱼钩钓上鳄鱼吗。能用绳子压下它的舌头吗。
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
41:2 你能用绳索穿它的鼻子吗。能用钩穿它的腮骨吗。
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
41:3 它岂向你连连恳求，说柔和的话吗。
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
41:4 岂肯与你立约，使你拿它永远作奴仆吗。
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
41:5 你岂可拿它当雀鸟玩耍吗。岂可为你的幼女将它拴住吗。
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
41:6 搭夥的渔夫岂可拿它当货物吗。能把它分给商人吗。
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
41:7 你能用倒钩枪扎满它的皮，能用鱼叉叉满它的头吗。
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
41:8 你按手在它身上，想与它争战，就不再这样行吧。
Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
41:9 人指望捉拿它是徒然的。一见它，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?
41:10 没有那吗凶猛的人敢惹它。这样，谁能在我面前删立得住呢。
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
41:11 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.
41:12 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.
41:13 谁能剥它的外衣。谁能进它上下牙骨之间呢。
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
41:14 谁能开它的腮颊。它牙齿四围是可畏的。
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
41:15 它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.
41:16 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.
41:17 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.
41:18 它打喷嚏就发出光来。它眼睛好像早晨的光线（原文作眼皮）。
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
41:19 从它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.
41:20 从它鼻孔冒出烟来，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.
41:21 它的气点着煤炭，有火焰从它口中发出。
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
41:22 它颈项中存着劲力。在它面前的都恐吓蹦跳。
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
41:23 它的肉块互相联络，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.
41:24 它的心结实如石头，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.
41:25 它一起来，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.
41:26 人若用刀，用枪，用标枪，用尖枪扎它，都是无用。
The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
41:27 它以铁为乾草，以铜为烂木。
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
41:28 箭不能恐吓它使它逃避。弹石在它看为碎秸。
The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
41:29 棍棒算为禾秸。它嗤笑短枪飕的响声。
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
41:30 它肚腹下如尖瓦片，它如钉耙经过淤泥。
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
41:31 它使深渊开滚如锅，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.
41:32 它行的路随后发光，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.
41:33 在地上没有像它造的那样，无所惧怕。
Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
41:34 凡高大的，它无不藐视。它在骄傲的水族上作王。
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
约伯记41参考
鳄鱼嘛，是……
41:1 “鳄鱼”原是指古迦南神话中的七头海兽。这里可能是指鳄鱼。
当看到福音受阻时，你也认为人能抵挡神吗？
41:9-11 人们愚昧地认为他们能抵挡神，其实他们连鳄鱼都害怕。神的能力岂是鳄鱼能比的！顺服神慈爱的权柄要比面对他的愤怒好多了。