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God's Power Shown in Creatures

¹ "^(F1)Can you drag out ^(F2)(C1)Leviathan with a fishhook,
And press down his tongue with a rope?

² "Can you ^(C1)put a ^(F1)rope in his nose,
And pierce his jaw with a ^(F2)hook?

³ "Will he make many pleas to you,
Or will he speak to you gentle words?

⁴ "Will he make a covenant with you?
Will you take him as a servant forever?

⁵ "Will you play with him as with a bird,
And tie him down for your young girls?

⁶ "Will the ^(F1)traders bargain for him?
Will they divide him among the merchants?

⁷ "Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?

⁸ "Lay your hand on him.
Remember the battle; ^(F1)you will not do it again!

⁹ "^(F1)Behold, ^(F2)your expectation is false;
Will ^(F3)you be hurled down even at the sight of him?

¹⁰ "No one is so reckless that he dares to ^(C1)stir him;
Who then is he who opposes Me?

¹¹ "Who has ^(C1)been first to give to Me, that I should repay him?
Whatever is ^(C2)under the entire heaven is Mine.

¹² "I will not be silent about his limbs,
Or his mighty strength, or his graceful frame.

¹³ "Who can ^(F1)strip off his outer covering?
Who can ^(F2)pierce his double ^(F3)armor?

¹⁴ "Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth there is terror.

¹⁵ "His ^(F1)strong scales are his pride,
Locked as with a tight seal.

¹⁶ "One is so close to another
That no air can come between them.

¹⁷ "They are joined one to another;
They clasp each other and cannot be separated.

¹⁸ "His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the ^(C1)eye of dawn.

¹⁹ "From his mouth go burning torches;
Sparks of fire leap forth.

²⁰ "From his nostrils smoke goes out
As from a boiling pot and burning reeds.

²¹ "His breath sets coals aglow,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

²² "In his neck dwells strength,
And dismay leaps before him.

²³ "The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm and immovable on him.

²⁴ "His heart is as firm as a stone,
And as firm as a lower millstone.

²⁵ "When he rises up, the ^(F1)mighty are afraid;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

²⁶ "The sword that reaches him cannot ^(F1)prevail,
Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

²⁷ "He regards iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.

²⁸ "The ^(F1)arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are turned into stubble for him.

²⁹ "Clubs are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.

³⁰ "His underparts are like sharp pieces of pottery;
He ^(F1)spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mud.

³¹ "He makes the depths boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

³² "Behind him he illuminates a pathway;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired.

³³ "^(C1)Nothing on ^(F1)earth is like him,
One made without fear.

³⁴ "^(F1)He looks on everything that is high;
He is king over all the ^(C1)sons of pride."