Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 Can you catch Leviathan with a fishhook or tie his tongue down with a rope?
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"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Can you put a rope through his snout or put a hook through his jaws?
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Can you put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
3 Will he beg you to let him go? Will he plead with you for mercy?
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Will he make many petitions to you? Or will he speak soft words to you?
4 Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?
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Will he make a covenant with you, That you should take him for a servant forever?
5 Will you tie him like a pet bird, like something to amuse your servant women?
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Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
6 Will fishermen bargain over him? Will merchants cut him up to sell?
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Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his hide with fishing spears or pierce his head with a harpoon?
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Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears?
8 Touch him once and you'll never try it again; you'll never forget the fight!
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Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
9 Anyone who sees Leviathan loses courage and falls to the ground.
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Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 When he is aroused, he is fierce; no one would dare to stand before him.
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None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
11 Who can attack him and still be safe? No one in all the world can do it.
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Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
12 Let me tell you about Leviathan's legs and describe how great and strong he is.
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"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
13 No one can tear off his outer coat or pierce the armor he wears.
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Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
14 Who can make him open his jaws, ringed with those terrifying teeth?
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Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
15 His back is made of rows of shields, fastened together and hard as stone.
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Strong scales are his pride, Shut up together with a close seal.
16 Each one is joined so tight to the next, not even a breath can come between.
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One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.
17 They all are fastened so firmly together that nothing can ever pull them apart.
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They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.
18 Light flashes when he sneezes, and his eyes glow like the rising sun.
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His sneezing flashes forth light, His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Flames blaze from his mouth, and streams of sparks fly out.
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Out of his mouth go burning torches, Sparks of fire leap forth.
20 Smoke comes pouring out of his nose, like smoke from weeds burning under a pot.
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Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, As of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 His breath starts fires burning; flames leap out of his mouth.
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His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
22 His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified.
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In his neck there is strength. Terror dances before him.
23 There is not a weak spot in his skin; it is as hard and unyielding as iron.
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The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.
24 His stony heart is without fear, as unyielding and hard as a millstone.
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His heart is as firm as a stone, Yes, firm as the lower millstone.
25 When he rises up, even the strongest are frightened; they are helpless with fear.
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When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
26 There is no sword that can wound him; no spear or arrow or lance that can harm him.
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If one lay at him with the sword, it can't avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
27 For him iron is as flimsy as straw, and bronze as soft as rotten wood.
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He counts iron as straw; And brass as rotten wood.
28 There is no arrow that can make him run; rocks thrown at him are like bits of straw.
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The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
29 To him a club is a piece of straw, and he laughs when men throw spears.
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Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
30 The scales on his belly are like jagged pieces of pottery; they tear up the muddy ground like a threshing sledge.
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His undersides are like sharp potsherds, Leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 He churns up the sea like boiling water and makes it bubble like a pot of oil.
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He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He leaves a shining path behind him and turns the sea to white foam.
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He makes a path to shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
33 There is nothing on earth to compare with him; he is a creature that has no fear.
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On earth there is not his equal, That is made without fear.
34 He looks down on even the proudest animals; he is king of all wild beasts.
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He sees everything that is high: He is king over all the sons of pride."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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