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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!) |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud." |
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