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Job 41 (AMP)

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¹ CAN YOU draw out the leviathan (the crocodile) with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord? ² Can you put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook or a spike? ³ Will he make many supplications to you ? Will he speak soft words to you ? ⁴ Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? ⁵ Will you play with as with a bird? Or will you put him on a leash for your maidens? ⁶ Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? ⁷ Can you fill his skin with harpoons? Or his head with fishing spears? ⁸ Lay your hand upon him! Remember your battle with him; you will not do again! ⁹ Behold, the hope of is disappointed; one is cast down even at the sight of him! ¹⁰ No one is so fierce that he dares to stir up ; who then is he who can stand before Me ? ¹¹ Who has first given to Me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heavens is Mine. ¹² I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. ¹³ Who can strip off outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors of his mouth? His teeth are terrible round about. ¹⁵ His scales are pride, shut up together a tight seal; ¹⁶ One is so near to another that no air can come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined one to another; they stick together so that they cannot be separated. ¹⁸ His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning torches, sparks of fire leap out. ²⁰ Out of his nostrils goes forth smoke, as out of a seething pot over a fire of rushes. ²¹ His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes forth from his mouth. ²² In neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. ²³ The folds of his flesh cleave together; they are firm upon him, and they cannot shake . ²⁴ His heart is as firm as a stone, indeed, as solid as a nether millstone. ²⁵ When raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; because of terror and the crashing they are beside themselves. ²⁶ Even if one strikes at him with the sword, it cannot get any hold, nor does the spear, the dart, or the javelin. ²⁷ He counts iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. ²⁸ The arrow cannot make flee; slingstones are treated by him as stubble. ²⁹ Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin. ³⁰ His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery; he spreads a threshing sledge upon the mire. ³¹ He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. ³² makes a shining track behind him; one would think the deep to be hoary . ³³ Upon earth there is not equal, a creature made without fear and he behaves fearlessly. ³⁴ He looks all mighty in the face ; he is monarch over all the sons of pride.