¹“Can you draw out Leviathan Leviathan is a name for a crocodile or similar creature. with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

¹　神造鳄鱼，显出他伟大

²Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

²能把草绳穿进它的鼻子吗？能用刺钩穿透它的腮骨吗？

³Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

³它会向你再三恳求，对你说温柔的话吗？

⁴Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?

⁴它肯与你立约，好使你永远奴役它吗？

⁵Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

⁵你怎能玩弄它，像玩弄雀鸟一样呢？怎能把它拴住，给你的幼女取乐呢？

⁶Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?

⁶结伙的渔夫怎能拿它当货物买卖呢？怎能把它分给商人呢？

⁷Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

⁷你能用倒钩扎满它的皮吗？能用鱼叉扎满它的头吗？

⁸Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

⁸你把手按在它身上，想到与它的战斗，你就不再是这样作了。（本章第1-8节在《马索拉抄本》为40:25-32）

⁹Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?

⁹人希望捉住它是徒然的，人一见它，就心惊胆战。（本节在《马索拉抄本》为41:1）

¹⁰None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

¹⁰人惹它的时候，它不是很凶猛吗？这样，有谁人在我面前能站立得住呢？

¹¹Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

¹¹谁先给了我，以致我要偿还呢？天下万物，都是我的。

¹²“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

¹²论到鳄鱼的四肢和它的力气，以及美好的体态，我不能缄默不言。

¹³Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

¹³谁能揭开它的外皮呢？谁能进入它上下两颚之间呢？

¹⁴Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

¹⁴谁能打开它的口呢？它的牙齿令人战栗。

¹⁵Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

¹⁵它的背有一行一行的鳞甲，紧紧合闭着，像印得很紧的印章一样。

¹⁶One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

¹⁶这鳞甲一一相连接，连气也透不入其间，

¹⁷They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.

¹⁷鳞甲一一互相连合，互相紧贴，不能分离。

¹⁸His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

¹⁸它打的喷嚏闪出光来，它的眼睛如同清晨的阳光；

¹⁹Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

¹⁹有火从它的口中发出，火星四射；

²⁰Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

²⁰有烟从它的鼻孔里冒出来，像从沸腾的锅中和烧着的芦苇里冒出来一样；

²¹His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

²¹它的气可以点着煤炭，有火焰从它的口里喷出来，

²²There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

²²它的颈项上存着能力，惊恐在它面前跳跃。

²³The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.

²³它下垂的肌肉紧贴在一起，牢牢地贴在身上，不能摇动。

²⁴His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

²⁴它的心坚实如石头，如下磨石那样坚实。

²⁵When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

²⁵它一起来，勇士都惊慌，因惊惶过度举止失措。

²⁶If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

²⁶追上它的刀剑都没用，矛枪、标枪、短枪也是这样。

²⁷He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

²⁷它把铁当作干草，把铜当作朽木。

²⁸The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

²⁸弓箭不能使它逃跑，甩石机弦在它看来不过是碎秸。

²⁹Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

²⁹棍棒被它当作碎秸，短枪飕飕之声它也讥笑。

³⁰His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

³⁰它的腹下像锐利的瓦片，它在泥上碾过如同有利钉的耙犁田一样。

³¹He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

³¹它使深渊沸腾，它搅动海洋如在鼎中调制膏油。

³²He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

³²它使自己行过的路发出白光，令人把深渊当作白发老人。

³³On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.

³³在世上没有一样像它的，它是无所惧怕的动物；

³⁴He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

³⁴所有高大的动物，它都藐视，它在一切狂傲的野兽之上作王。”