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1“Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?

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

2Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook?

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

3Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you?

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

4Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever?

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

5Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you leash him for your maidens?

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

6Will your companions make a banquet of him? Will they apportion him among the merchants?

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

7Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears?

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

8Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle— Never do it again!

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

9Indeed, any hope of overcoming him is false; Shall one not be overwhelmed 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.

10No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up. 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 preceded Me, that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

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

12“I will not conceal his limbs, His mighty power, or his graceful proportions.

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

13Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?

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

14Who can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all around?

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

15His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as with a seal;

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

16One is so near 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 and cannot be parted.

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

18His sneezings flash forth light, 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 lights; Sparks of fire shoot out.

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

20Smoke goes out of his nostrils, As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

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

21His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes out of his mouth.

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

22Strength dwells in his neck, And sorrow dances before him.

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

23The folds of his flesh are joined together; They are firm on him and cannot be moved.

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

24His heart is as hard as stone, Even as hard as the lower millstone.

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

25When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; Because of his crashings they are beside themselves.

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

26Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; Nor does spear, dart, or javelin.

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

27He regards iron as straw, And bronze as rotten wood.

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

28The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones become like stubble to him.

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

29Darts are regarded as straw; He laughs at the threat of javelins.

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

30His undersides are like sharp potsherds; He spreads pointed marks in the mire.

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

31He makes the deep boil like a pot; He makes 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 leaves a shining wake behind him; 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.

33On earth there is nothing like him, Which is made without fear.

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

34He beholds every high thing; He is 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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