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^1 (40:25) "Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook,
and tie down its tongue with a rope?
² Can you put a cord through its nose,
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
³ Will it make numerous supplications to you,
will it speak to you with tender words?
⁴ Will it make a pact with you,
so you could take it as your slave for life?
⁵ Can you play with it, like a bird,
or tie it on a leash for your girls?
⁶ Will partners bargain for it?
Will they divide it up among the merchants?
⁷ Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?
⁸ If you lay your hand on it,
you will remember the fight,
and you will never do it again!
^9 (41:1) See, his expectation is wrong,
he is laid low even at the sight of it.
¹⁰ Is it not fierce when it is awakened?
Who is he, then, who can stand before it?
¹¹ (Who has confronted me that I should repay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me!)
¹² I will not keep silent about its limbs,
and the extent of its might,
and the grace of its arrangement.
¹³ Who can uncover its outer covering?
Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor?
¹⁴ Who can open the doors of its mouth?
Its teeth all around are fearsome.
¹⁵ Its back has rows of shields,
shut up closely together as with a seal;
¹⁶ each one is so close to the next
that no air can come between them.
¹⁷ They lock tightly together, one to the next;
they cling together and cannot be separated.
¹⁸ Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.
¹⁹ Out of its mouth go flames,
sparks of fire shoot forth!
²⁰ Smoke streams from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.
²¹ Its breath sets coals ablaze
and a flame shoots from its mouth.
²² Strength lodges in its neck,
and despair runs before it.
²³ The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm on it, immovable.
²⁴ Its heart is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.
²⁵ When it rises up, the mighty are terrified,
at its thrashing about they withdraw.
²⁶ Whoever strikes it with a sword
will have no effect,
nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.
²⁷ It regards iron as straw
and bronze as rotten wood.
²⁸ Arrows do not make it flee;
slingstones become like chaff to it.
²⁹ A club is counted as a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
³⁰ Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds,
it leaves its mark in the mud
like a threshing sledge.
³¹ It makes the deep boil like a cauldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment,
³² It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had a head of white hair.
³³ The likes of it is not on earth,
a creature without fear.
³⁴ It looks on every haughty being;
it is king over all that are proud."