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King James Bible

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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