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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16One is so near to another that no air can come between them. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28The arrow cannot make him flee; for him, sling stones are turned to stubble. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.” |
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