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1 "Can you draw Leviathan out of the water with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope? | 1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? |
2Can you attach a bridle to his snout, or pierce his jaw with a hook? | 2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? |
3Will he make many supplications to you, or will he beg you for mercy? | 3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? |
4Will he try to make a deal with you, so that you may take him in servitude forever? | 4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? |
5"Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls? | 5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? |
6Will your business be able to buy him, Will you divide him among your merchant friends? | 6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? |
7Will you fill his flesh with harpoons, or his head with lances? | 7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? |
8Lay your hand on him, and you'll remember the struggle. You'll never do that again! | 8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. |
9"Look! Anyone's hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him. | 9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? |
10No one is fierce enough to dare to arouse him. "Who, then, can stand in my presence and face me? | 10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? |
11Who can take me to court and be reconciled to me? All of heaven is mine. | 11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. |
12"I won't be silent concerning his limbs, his mighty strength, and orderly frame. | 12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. |
13Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can approach him with a bridle? | 13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? |
14Who dares to open his mouth, since it is ringed with his terrible teeth! | 14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. |
15His protective scales are his pride, they lie sealed tightly together. | 15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. |
16Each one is so close to the other that not even air comes in between them. | 16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. |
17Each is attached to the other, grasping each other so they cannot be separated. | 17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered. |
18"His snorting releases flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of the dawn. | 18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. |
19Flames blaze from his mouth; streams of sparking fire fly out. | 19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. |
20Smoke billows from his nostrils; like a boiling pot or burning reeds. | 20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. |
21His breath can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth. | 21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. |
22"His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified. | 22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. |
23There is no flaw in his body's armor; it is firmly fixed on him and unbreachable. | 23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. |
24His heart is as strong as stone, it is as hard as a lower millstone. | 24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. |
25When he rears up, the mighty are terrified; they are bewildered as he thrashes about. | 25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. |
26"Thrusting at him with a sword won't be effective, nor will spears, darts, or javelins. | 26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. |
27He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree. | 27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. |
28Arrows won't make him flee; stones from a sling are only pebbles to him. | 28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. |
29Clubs are like twigs; he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin. | 29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. |
30"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain. | 30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. |
31He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment. | 31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. |
32The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair. | 32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. |
33"There's nothing like him on earth; he was created without the ability to fear. | 33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. |
34He looks down on everything that is high; he rules over every kind of pride." | 34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. |
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