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And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

For this cause men go in fear of him; he has no respect for any who are wise in heart.

Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.

His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English.

See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.

Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.

Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?