Job 41
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41:1
Can you draw out
1leviathan with a hook,
Or press down his tongue with a cord?
Job 41
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41:2
Can you put a rope in his nose,
Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Job 41
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41:3
Will he make many supplications unto you,
Or speak soft words to you?
Job 41
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41:4
Will he make a covenant with you
That you would take him as a servant forever?
Job 41
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41:5
Will you play with him as with a bird,
Or bind him for your maidens?
Job 41
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41:6
Will the traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among merchants?
Job 41
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41:7
Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?
Job 41
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41:8
Lay your hand on him,
And remember the battle — you will never do it again!
Job 41
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41:9
Indeed, any hope for him is vain;
Will not one be even cast down at the sight of him?
Job 41
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41:10
No one is so fierce as to stir him up;
Who then is he who would stand before Me?
Job 41
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41:11
aWho has first given to Me that I should repay
him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven
bis Mine.
Job 41
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41:12
I will not be silent about his limbs
Or about the account of his mighty deeds or about the beauty of his frame.
Job 41
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41:13
Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who can go within his double jaws?
Job 41
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41:14
Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth is terror.
Job 41
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41:15
His pride is
his rows of scales,
Shut up
as with a tight seal.
Job 41
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41:16
One is so near the other
That the air cannot pass between them.
Job 41
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41:17
Each is joined to the other;
They stick together and cannot be separated.
Job 41
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41:18
His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
Job 41
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41:19
Out of his mouth go forth flaming torches;
Sparks of fire leap out.
Job 41
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41:20
Out of his nostrils comes smoke,
As from a boiling pot and
burning rushes.
Job 41
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41:21
His breath kindles coals,
And a flame comes from his mouth.
Job 41
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41:22
In his neck abides strength,
And terror dances before him.
Job 41
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41:23
The folds of his flesh are joined together;
They are firm upon him
and immovable.
Job 41
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41:24
His heart is as firm as stone,
Indeed as firm as the lower millstone.
Job 41
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41:25
At his rising up,
1the mighty fear;
They are beside themselves with consternation.
Job 41
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41:26
The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
Job 41
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41:27
He considers iron
shafts as straw,
And bronze
ones as rotted wood.
Job 41
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41:28
The arrow does not make him flee;
With him slingstones turn to stubble.
Job 41
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41:29
Clubs are considered as stubble;
He laughs at the quivering javelin.
Job 41
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41:30
His underparts are
like sharp potsherds;
He spreads himself
like a
1threshing sledge upon the mire.
Job 41
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41:31
He makes the deep boil like a cauldron;
He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
Job 41
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41:32
Behind him he makes a shining wake;
One would think the deep to be white-haired.
Job 41
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41:33
On earth there is none his equal,
Who is made without fear.
Job 41
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41:34
He beholds everything that is high;
He is king over all the sons of pride.
