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1 "Job, can you pull the leviathan out of the sea with a fish hook? Can you tie down its tongue 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 rope through its nose? Can you stick a hook through 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? Will it speak gently to you?
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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? Can you make it 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 out of it like a bird? Can you put it on a leash for your young women?
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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 offer you something 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 fill its body with harpoons? Can you throw fishing spears into its head?
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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 touch it, it will fight you. Then you will remember never to touch 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 No one can possibly control the leviathan. Just looking at it will terrify you.
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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 dares to wake it up. So who can possibly stand up to 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 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything on earth 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 "Now I will speak about the leviathan's legs. I will talk about its strength and its graceful 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 Who can strip off its outer coat? Who would try to put a bridle on it?
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13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?
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14 Who dares to open its jaws? Its mouth is filled with terrifying 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 Its back has rows of shields that are close together.
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15 His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
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16 Each one is so close to the next one that not even air can pass 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 tightly to one another. They stick together and can't be forced apart.
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17 They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
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18 The leviathan's snorting throws out flashes of light. Its eyes shine like the first light of day.
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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 Fire seems to spray out of 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. It is like smoke from a boiling pot over burning grass.
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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. Flames fly 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 Its neck is very strong. People run to get out of its way.
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22 Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.
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23 Its rolls of fat are close together. They are firm and can't 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 rock. It is as hard as a lower millstone.
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24 His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
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25 When the leviathan rises up, even mighty people are terrified. They run away when it moves around wildly.
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25 When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
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26 A sword that strikes it has no effect. Neither does a spear or dart or javelin.
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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. It crushes bronze 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 Arrows do not make it run away. Stones that are thrown from slings are like straw hitting it.
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28 Arrows do not make him flee; slingstones are like chaff to him.
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29 A club seems like a piece of straw to it. It laughs when it hears a javelin rattling.
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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 Its undersides are like broken pieces of pottery. It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing sled.
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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 ocean churn like a boiling pot. It stirs up the sea like perfume someone is making.
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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 It leaves a shiny trail behind it. You would think the ocean 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 on earth is equal to the leviathan. That creature is not afraid of anything.
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33 Nothing on earth is his equal-- a creature without fear.
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34 It looks down on proud people. It rules over all those who are proud."
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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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