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“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope? |
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Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? |
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3
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Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly? |
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4
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Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life? |
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5
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Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens? |
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Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants? |
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Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? |
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8
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If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it! |
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9
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Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming? |
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10
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No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me? |
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Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine. |
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12
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I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form. |
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13
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Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle? |
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14
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Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth? |
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15
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His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together. |
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16
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One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them. |
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17
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They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated. |
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18
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His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn. |
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19
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Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth! |
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20
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Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. |
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21
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His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth. |
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22
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Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him. |
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23
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The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable. |
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24
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His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone! |
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25
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When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing. |
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26
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The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow. |
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27
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He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. |
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28
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No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him. |
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29
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A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance. |
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30
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His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge. |
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31
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He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment. |
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He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair! |
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Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear! |
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He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.” |
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