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Job 41:9-19

9 Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!

9 Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.

10 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?

11 Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.

12 I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

12 “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs, its strength and its graceful form.

13 Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

13 Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor ?

14 Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?

15 His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

15 Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;

16 One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

16 each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.

17 They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.

17 They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.

18 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.

19 Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

19 Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.

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