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Job 41:1 |
"Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?
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Job 41:2 |
Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
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Job 41:3 |
Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?
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Job 41:4 |
Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?
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Job 41:5 |
Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
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Job 41:6 |
Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
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Job 41:7 |
Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
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Job 41:8 |
If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
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Job 41:9 |
Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.
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Job 41:10 |
No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?
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Job 41:11 |
Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
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Job 41:12 |
"I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and its graceful form.
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Job 41:13 |
Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor [fn]?
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Job 41:14 |
Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?
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Job 41:15 |
Its back has [fn] rows of shields tightly sealed together;
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Job 41:16 |
each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
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Job 41:17 |
They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
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Job 41:18 |
Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
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Job 41:19 |
Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
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Job 41:20 |
Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
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Job 41:21 |
Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.
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Job 41:22 |
Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
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Job 41:23 |
The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
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Job 41:24 |
Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
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Job 41:25 |
When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.
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Job 41:26 |
The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
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Job 41:27 |
Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
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Job 41:28 |
Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.
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Job 41:29 |
A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
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Job 41:30 |
Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
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Job 41:31 |
It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
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Job 41:32 |
It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.
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Job 41:33 |
Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.
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Job 41:34 |
It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud."
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