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"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}?
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Can you put a rope in its nose? Or can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?
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Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you?
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Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?
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Will you play with it as [with] birds and put it on a leash for your girls?
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Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen?
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Can you fill its kin with harpoons or its head with fish spears?
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Lay your hands on it; think about [the] battle--you will not do [it] again!
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"Look, {the hope of capturing it} is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?
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[Is] it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who [then] [is] he [who] would stand {before it}?
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Who has come to confront me, that I should repay [him]? Under all the heavens, {it belongs to me}.
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"I will not keep quiet [concerning] its limbs or concerning [the] extent of its might and [the] gracefulness of its frame.
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Who can strip off {its outer covering}? Who can penetrate its double harness?
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Who can open [the] doors of its face? Its teeth all around [are] fearsome.
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Its back [has] scales of shields; it is shut up closely [as with] a seal.
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They are close {to one another}-- even [the] air cannot come between them.
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They are joined {one to another}; they cling together and cannot be separated.
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"Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes [are] {red like dawn}.
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Torches go from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
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Smoke comes from its nostrils as [from] a kettle boiling and [burning] bulrushes.
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Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth.
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"Strength abides in its neck, and dismay dances {before it}.
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Its flesh's folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it--it will not be moved.
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Its heart is cast as stone; yes, it is cast as [the] lower millstone.
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{When it raises itself}, [the] mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.
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Reaching it [with the] sword does not avail, [nor] [with the] spear, [the] dart, or [the] javelin.
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It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.
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{An arrow} will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.
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Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at [the] short sword's rattle.
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"Its underparts [are] shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud [like] a threshing sledge.
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It makes [the] deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes [the] sea like a pot of ointment.
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Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair.
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"{On the ground it has no equal}-- a creature without fear.
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It observes all [the] lofty; it [is] king {over all that are proud}."