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| 1 "Can you draw Leviathan out of the water with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope? | 1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope? |
| 2Can you attach a bridle to his snout, or pierce his jaw with a hook? | 2Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook? |
| 3Will he make many supplications to you, or will he beg you for mercy? | 3Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words? |
| 4Will he try to make a deal with you, so that you may take him in servitude forever? | 4Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life? |
| 5"Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls? | 5Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house? |
| 6Will your business be able to buy him, Will you divide him among your merchant friends? | 6Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? |
| 7Will you fill his flesh with harpoons, or his head with lances? | 7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? |
| 8Lay your hand on him, and you'll remember the struggle. You'll never do that again! | 8If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again! |
| 9"Look! Anyone's hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him. | 9Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering. |
| 10No one is fierce enough to dare to arouse him. "Who, then, can stand in my presence and face me? | 10No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me? |
| 11Who can take me to court and be reconciled to me? All of heaven is mine. | 11Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me. |
| 12"I won't be silent concerning his limbs, his mighty strength, and orderly frame. | 12"I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and its graceful form. |
| 13Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can approach him with a bridle? | 13Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor? |
| 14Who dares to open his mouth, since it is ringed with his terrible teeth! | 14Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth? |
| 15His protective scales are his pride, they lie sealed tightly together. | 15Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together; |
| 16Each one is so close to the other that not even air comes in between them. | 16each is so close to the next that no air can pass between. |
| 17Each is attached to the other, grasping each other so they cannot be separated. | 17They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted. |
| 18"His snorting releases flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of the dawn. | 18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn. |
| 19Flames blaze from his mouth; streams of sparking fire fly out. | 19Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. |
| 20Smoke billows from his nostrils; like a boiling pot or burning reeds. | 20Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. |
| 21His breath can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth. | 21Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth. |
| 22"His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified. | 22Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it. |
| 23There is no flaw in his body's armor; it is firmly fixed on him and unbreachable. | 23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable. |
| 24His heart is as strong as stone, it is as hard as a lower millstone. | 24Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. |
| 25When he rears up, the mighty are terrified; they are bewildered as he thrashes about. | 25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing. |
| 26"Thrusting at him with a sword won't be effective, nor will spears, darts, or javelins. | 26The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin. |
| 27He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree. | 27Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood. |
| 28Arrows won't make him flee; stones from a sling are only pebbles to him. | 28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it. |
| 29Clubs are like twigs; he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin. | 29A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. |
| 30"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain. | 30Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. |
| 31He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment. | 31It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment. |
| 32The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair. | 32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair. |
| 33"There's nothing like him on earth; he was created without the ability to fear. | 33Nothing on earth is its equal-- a creature without fear. |
| 34He looks down on everything that is high; he rules over every kind of pride." | 34It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud." |
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