Bible verses about "leviathan" | Brenton

Job 41:10

¹⁰ ^(41:1) Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?

¹ ^(39:31) And the Lord God answered Job, and said, ² ^(39:32) Will any one pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer. ³ ^(39:33) And Job answered and said to the Lord, ⁴ ^(39:34) Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. ⁵ ^(39:35) I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time. ⁶ ^(40:1) And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, saying, ⁷ ^(40:2) Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me. ⁸ ^(40:3) Do not set aside my judgment: and dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous? ⁹ ^(40:4) Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his? ¹⁰ ^(40:5) Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour. ¹¹ ^(40:6) And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one. ¹² ^(40:7) Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly. ¹³ ^(40:8) And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame. ¹⁴ ^(40:9) Then will I confess that thy right hand can save thee. ¹⁵ ^(40:10) But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen. ¹⁶ ^(40:11) Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. ¹⁷ ^(40:12) He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together. ¹⁸ ^(40:13) His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is as cast iron. ¹⁹ ^(40:14) This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels. ²⁰ ^(40:15) And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep. ²¹ ^(40:16) He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush. ²² ^(40:17) And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes of the field. ²³ ^(40:18) If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth. ²⁴ ^(40:19) Yet one shall take him in his sight; one shall catch him with a cord, and pierce his nose.

Job 40:15-24

¹⁵ ^(40:10) But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen. ¹⁶ ^(40:11) Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. ¹⁷ ^(40:12) He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together. ¹⁸ ^(40:13) His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is as cast iron. ¹⁹ ^(40:14) This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels. ²⁰ ^(40:15) And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep. ²¹ ^(40:16) He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush. ²² ^(40:17) And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes of the field. ²³ ^(40:18) If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth. ²⁴ ^(40:19) Yet one shall take him in his sight; one shall catch him with a cord, and pierce his nose.

Job 40:15

¹⁵ ^(40:10) But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.

Job 40:1-41:34

Job 41:1-34

¹ ^(40:20) But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose? ² ^(40:21) Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp? ³ ^(40:22) Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant? ⁴ ^(40:23) And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant? ⁵ ^(40:24) And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child? ⁶ ^(40:25) And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him? ⁷ ^(40:26) And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither shall they carry his head in fishing-vessels. ⁸ ^(40:27) But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him once, remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more. ⁹ ^(41:0) Hast thou not seen him? and hast thou not wondered at the things said of him? ¹⁰ ^(41:1) Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me? ¹¹ ^(41:2) Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole world under heaven is mine? ¹² ^(41:3) I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist. ¹³ ^(41:4) Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate? ¹⁴ ^(41:5) Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth. ¹⁵ ^(41:6) His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his skin as a smyrite stone. ¹⁶ ^(41:7) One part cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them. ¹⁷ ^(41:8) They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated. ¹⁸ ^(41:9) At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star. ¹⁹ ^(41:10) Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad. ²⁰ ^(41:11) Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals. ²¹ ^(41:12) His breath is as live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ²² ^(41:13) And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs. ²³ ^(41:14) The flesh also of his body is joined together: if one pours violence upon him, he shall not be moved. ²⁴ ^(41:15) His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil. ²⁵ ^(41:16) And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth. ²⁶ ^(41:17) If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, either with the spear or the breast-plate. ²⁷ ^(41:18) For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood. ²⁸ ^(41:19) The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass. ²⁹ ^(41:20) Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand. ³⁰ ^(41:21) His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense quantity of clay. ³¹ ^(41:22) He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment, ³² ^(41:23) and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range. ³³ ^(41:24) There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels. ³⁴ ^(41:25) He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.

Job 3:8

⁸ But let him that curses that day curse it, even he that is ready to attack the great whale.

Psalms 74:14

¹⁴ ^(73:14) Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations.

Job 41:1

¹ ^(40:20) But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?

Psalms 104:26

²⁶ ^(103:26) There go the ships; and this dragon whom thou hast made to play in it.

Isaiah 27:1

¹ In that day God shall bring his holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.