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1 "Can you catch the leviathann on afish hook or tie its tongue down with a rope?
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1 "Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
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2 Can you put a cord through its nose or a hook in its jaw?
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2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
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3 Will it keep begging you for mercy and speak to you with gentle words?
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3 Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?
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4 Will it make an agreement with you and let you take it as your slave for life?
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4 Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?
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5 Can you make a pet of the leviathan as you would a bird or put it on a leash for your girls?
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5 Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
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6 Will traders try to bargain with you for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
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6 Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
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7 Can you stick darts all over its skin or fill its head with fishing spears?
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7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
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8 If you put one hand on it, you will never forget the battle, and you will never do it again!
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8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
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9 There is no hope of defeating it; just seeing it overwhelms people.
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9 Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
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10 No one is brave enough to make it angry, so who would be able to stand up against me?
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10 No one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
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11 No one has ever given me anything that I must pay back, because everything under the sky belongs to me.
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11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
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12 "I will speak about Leviathan's arms and legs, its great strength and well-formed body.
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12 "I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.
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13 No one can tear off its outer hide or poke through its double armor.
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13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?
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14 No one can force open its great jaws; they are filled with frightening teeth.
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14 Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
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15 It has rows of shields on its back that are tightly sealed together.
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15 His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
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16 Each shield is so close to the next one that no air can go between them.
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16 each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
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17 They are joined strongly to one another; they hold on to each other and cannot be separated.
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17 They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
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18 When it snorts, flashes of light are thrown out, and its eyes look like the light at dawn.
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18 His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
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19 Flames blaze from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
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19 Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
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20 Smoke pours out of its nose, as if coming from a large pot over a hot fire.
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20 Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
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21 Its breath sets coals on fire, and flames come out of its mouth.
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21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
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22 There is great strength in its neck. People are afraid and run away.
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22 Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.
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23 The folds of its skin are tightly joined; they are set and cannot be moved.
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23 The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
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24 Its chest is as hard as a rock, even as hard as a grinding stone.
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24 His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
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25 The powerful fear its terrible looks and draw back in fear as it moves.
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25 When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
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26 The sword that hits it does not hurt it, nor the arrows, darts, and spears.
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26 The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
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27 It treats iron as if it were straw and bronze metal as if it were rotten wood.
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27 Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
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28 It does not run away from arrows; stones from slings are like chaff to it.
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28 Arrows do not make him flee; slingstones are like chaff to him.
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29 Clubs feel like pieces of straw to it, and it laughs when they shake a spear at it.
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29 A club seems to him but a piece of straw; he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
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30 The underside of its body is like broken pieces of pottery. It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing board.
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30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
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31 It makes the deep sea bubble like a boiling pot; it stirs up the sea like a pot of oil.
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31 He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
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32 When it swims, it leaves a shining path in the water that makes the sea look as if it had white hair.
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32 Behind him he leaves a glistening wake; one would think the deep had white hair.
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33 Nothing else on earth is equal to it; it is a creature without fear.
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33 Nothing on earth is his equal-- a creature without fear.
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34 It looks down on all those who are too proud; it is king over all proud creatures."
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34 He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud."
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| Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Century Version Online Bible) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
