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1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

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

2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

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

3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

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

4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

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

5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

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

6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

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

7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

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

8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

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

9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

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

10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

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

11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

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

12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

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

13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

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

14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

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

15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

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

16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

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

17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

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

18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

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

19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

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

20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

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

21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

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

22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

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

23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

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

24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

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

25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

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

26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

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

27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

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

28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

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

29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

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

30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

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

31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh 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.

32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

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

33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

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

34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

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

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