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1"Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?

1 "Can you draw Leviathan out of the water with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope?

2Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?

2Can you attach a bridle to his snout, or pierce his jaw with a hook?

3Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?

3Will he make many supplications to you, or will he beg you for mercy?

4Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?

4Will he try to make a deal with you, so that you may take him in servitude forever?

5Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?

5"Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls?

6Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

6Will your business be able to buy him, Will you divide him among your merchant friends?

7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

7Will you fill his flesh with harpoons, or his head with lances?

8If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!

8Lay your hand on him, and you'll remember the struggle. You'll never do that again!

9Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.

9"Look! Anyone's hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him.

10No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?

10No one is fierce enough to dare to arouse him. "Who, then, can stand in my presence and face me?

11Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.

11Who can take me to court and be reconciled to me? All of heaven is mine.

12"I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and its graceful form.

12"I won't be silent concerning his limbs, his mighty strength, and orderly frame.

13Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor?

13Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can approach him with a bridle?

14Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?

14Who dares to open his mouth, since it is ringed with his terrible teeth!

15Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;

15His protective scales are his pride, they lie sealed tightly together.

16each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.

16Each one is so close to the other that not even air comes in between them.

17They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.

17Each is attached to the other, grasping each other so they cannot be separated.

18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.

18"His snorting releases flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of the dawn.

19Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.

19Flames blaze from his mouth; streams of sparking fire fly out.

20Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

20Smoke billows from his nostrils; like a boiling pot or burning reeds.

21Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.

21His breath can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth.

22Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.

22"His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified.

23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

23There is no flaw in his body's armor; it is firmly fixed on him and unbreachable.

24Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

24His heart is as strong as stone, it is as hard as a lower millstone.

25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.

25When he rears up, the mighty are terrified; they are bewildered as he thrashes about.

26The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.

26"Thrusting at him with a sword won't be effective, nor will spears, darts, or javelins.

27Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.

27He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree.

28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.

28Arrows won't make him flee; stones from a sling are only pebbles to him.

29A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

29Clubs are like twigs; he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin.

30Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

30"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain.

31It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.

31He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.

32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.

32The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair.

33Nothing on earth is its equal-- a creature without fear.

33"There's nothing like him on earth; he was created without the ability to fear.

34It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud."

34He looks down on everything that is high; he rules over every kind of pride."

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