---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Job from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 41
verse_count: 34
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Job, chap. 41, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Job 41

**1** Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook, or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
**2** Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
**3** Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
**4** Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
**5** Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
**6** Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
**7** Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
**8** Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
**9** Behold, the hope of him is in vain; shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
**10** None is so fierce that dare stir him up; who then is able to stand before me?
**11** Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
**12** I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
**13** Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
**14** Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
**15** His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
**16** One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
**17** They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
**18** By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
**19** Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
**20** Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
**21** His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
**22** In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
**23** The flakes of his flesh are joined together; they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
**24** His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
**25** When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid; by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
**26** The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold; the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
**27** He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
**28** The arrow cannot make him flee; sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.
**29** Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
**30** Sharp stones are under him; he spreadeth sharp-pointed things upon the mire.
**31** He maketh the deep to boil like a pot I he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
**32** He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
**33** Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
**34** He beholdeth all high things; he is a king over all the children of pride.