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1 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?
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"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}?
2 Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
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Can you put a rope in its nose? Or can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?
3 Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?
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Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you?
4 Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?
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Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?
5 Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
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Will you play with it as [with] birds and put it on a leash for your girls?
6 Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
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Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen?
7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
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Can you fill its kin with harpoons or its head with fish spears?
8 If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
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Lay your hands on it; think about [the] battle--you will not do [it] again!
9 Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.
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"Look, {the hope of capturing it} is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?
10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?
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[Is] it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who [then] [is] he [who] would stand {before it}?
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
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Who has come to confront me, that I should repay [him]? Under all the heavens, {it belongs to me}.
12 “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs, its strength and its graceful form.
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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.
13 Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor ?
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Who can strip off {its outer covering}? Who can penetrate its double harness?
14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?
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Who can open [the] doors of its face? Its teeth all around [are] fearsome.
15 Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
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Its back [has] scales of shields; it is shut up closely [as with] a seal.
16 each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
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They are close {to one another}-- even [the] air cannot come between them.
17 They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
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They are joined {one to another}; they cling together and cannot be separated.
18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
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"Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes [are] {red like dawn}.
19 Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
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Torches go from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
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Smoke comes from its nostrils as [from] a kettle boiling and [burning] bulrushes.
21 Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.
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Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth.
22 Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
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"Strength abides in its neck, and dismay dances {before it}.
23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
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Its flesh's folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it--it will not be moved.
24 Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
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Its heart is cast as stone; yes, it is cast as [the] lower millstone.
25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.
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{When it raises itself}, [the] mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.
26 The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
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Reaching it [with the] sword does not avail, [nor] [with the] spear, [the] dart, or [the] javelin.
27 Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
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It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.
28 Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.
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{An arrow} will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.
29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
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Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at [the] short sword's rattle.
30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
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"Its underparts [are] shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud [like] a threshing sledge.
31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
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It makes [the] deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes [the] sea like a pot of ointment.
32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.
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Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair.
33 Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.
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"{On the ground it has no equal}-- a creature without fear.
34 It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud.”
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It observes all [the] lofty; it [is] king {over all that are proud}."
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