| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 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] | 2"Can you put a rope in his nose Or pierce his jaw with a hook? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Will he make many supplications to you, Or will he speak to you soft words? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him for a servant forever? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you bind him for your maidens? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Will the traders bargain over him? Will they divide him among the merchants? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle; you will not do it again! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Behold, your expectation is false; Will you be laid low even at the sight of him? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him; Who then is he that can stand before Me? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Who has 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 orderly frame. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can come within his double mail? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth there is terror. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"His strong scales are his pride, Shut up as with a tight seal. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"One is so near to another That no air can come between them. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"They are joined one to another; They clasp each other and cannot be separated. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"His sneezes flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Out of his mouth go burning torches; Sparks of fire leap forth. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth As from a boiling pot and burning rushes. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"In his neck lodges strength, And dismay leaps before him. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"The folds of his flesh are joined together, Firm on him and immovable. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"His heart is as hard as a stone, Even as hard as a lower millstone. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"When he raises himself up, the mighty fear; Because of the crashing they are bewildered. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"The sword that reaches him cannot avail, Nor the spear, the dart or the javelin. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"He regards iron as straw, Bronze as rotten wood. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones are turned into stubble for him. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Clubs are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rattling of the javelin. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30"His underparts are like sharp potsherds; He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"He makes the depths boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a jar of ointment. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32"Behind him he makes a wake to shine; One would think the deep to be gray-haired. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"Nothing on earth is like him, One made without fear. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"He looks on everything that is high; He is king over all the sons of pride." |
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