Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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1 (40-20) Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?
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"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down its tongue with a cord?
2 (40-21) Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?
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Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3 (40-22) Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?
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Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you?
4 (40-23) Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever,
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Will it make a covenant with you to be taken as your servant forever?
5 (40-24) Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?
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Will you play with it as with a bird, or will you put it on leash for your girls?
6 (40-25) Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?
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Will traders bargain over it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
7 (40-26) Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with his head?
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Can you fill its skin with harpoons, or its head with fishing spears?
8 (40-27) Lay thy hand upon him: remember the battle, and speak no more.
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Lay hands on it; think of the battle; you will not do it again!
9 (40-28) Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down.
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Any hope of capturing it will be disappointed; were not even the gods overwhelmed at the sight of it?
10 (41-1) I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel, for who can resist my countenance?
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No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up. Who can stand before it?
11 (41-2) Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
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Who can confront it and be safe? —under the whole heaven, who?
12 (41-3) I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.
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"I will not keep silence concerning its limbs, or its mighty strength, or its splendid frame.
13 (41-4) Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
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Who can strip off its outer garment? Who can penetrate its double coat of mail?
14 (41-5) Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
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Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth.
15 (41-6) His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.
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Its back is made of shields in rows, shut up closely as with a seal.
16 (41-7) One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them:
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One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
17 (41-8) They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.
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They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
18 (41-9) His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.
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Its sneezes flash forth light, and its eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
19 (41-10) Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.
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From its mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap out.
20 (41-11) Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.
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Out of its nostrils comes smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
21 (41-12) His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
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Its breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of its mouth.
22 (41-13) In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face.
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In its neck abides strength, and terror dances before it.
23 (41-14) The members of his flesh cleave one to another: he shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.
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The folds of its flesh cling together; it is firmly cast and immovable.
24 (41-15) His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith’s anvil,
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Its heart is as hard as stone, as hard as the lower millstone.
25 (41-16) When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves.
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When it raises itself up the gods are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.
26 (41-17) When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
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Though the sword reaches it, it does not avail, nor does the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27 (41-18) For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
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It counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
28 (41-19) The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.
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The arrow cannot make it flee; slingstones, for it, are turned to chaff.
29 (41-20) As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
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Clubs are counted as chaff; it laughs at the rattle of javelins.
30 (41-21) The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
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Its underparts are like sharp potsherds; it spreads itself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
31 (41-22) He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.
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It makes the deep boil like a pot; it makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 (41-23) A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing old.
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It leaves a shining wake behind it; one would think the deep to be white-haired.
33 (41-24) There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one,
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On earth it has no equal, a creature without fear.
34 (41-25) He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children of pride.
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It surveys everything that is lofty; it is king over all that are proud."
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