Job 41
NASB
Job 41:1
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"Can you draw out (Or {the crocodile}) Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?
Job 41:2
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"Can you put a rope in his nose Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Job 41:3
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"Will he make many supplications to you, Or will he speak to you soft words?
Job 41:4
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"Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him for a servant forever?
Job 41:5
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"Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you bind him for your maidens?
Job 41:6
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"Will the traders bargain over him? Will they divide him among the merchants?
Job 41:7
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"Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears?
Job 41:8
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"Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle; you will not do it again!
Job 41:9
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"Behold, your expectation is false; Will you be laid low even at the sight of him?
Job 41:10
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"No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him; Who then is he that can stand before Me?
Job 41:11
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"Who has given to Me that I should repay {him?} {Whatever} is under the whole heaven is Mine.
Job 41:12
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"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Or his mighty strength, or his orderly frame.
Job 41:13
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"Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can come within his double mail?
Job 41:14
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"Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth there is terror.
Job 41:15
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"{His} strong scales are {his} pride, Shut up {as with} a tight seal.
Job 41:16
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"One is so near to another That no air can come between them.
Job 41:17
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"They are joined one to another; They clasp each other and cannot be separated.
Job 41:18
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"His sneezes flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Job 41:19
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"Out of his mouth go burning torches; Sparks of fire leap forth.
Job 41:20
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"Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth As {from} a boiling pot and {burning} rushes.
Job 41:21
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"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
Job 41:22
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"In his neck lodges strength, And dismay leaps before him.
Job 41:23
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"The folds of his flesh are joined together, Firm on him and immovable.
Job 41:24
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"His heart is as hard as a stone, Even as hard as a lower millstone.
Job 41:25
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"When he raises himself up, the mighty fear; Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
Job 41:26
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"The sword that reaches him cannot avail, Nor the spear, the dart or the javelin.
Job 41:27
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"He regards iron as straw, Bronze as rotten wood.
Job 41:28
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"The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones are turned into stubble for him.
Job 41:29
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"Clubs are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.
Job 41:30
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"His underparts are {like} sharp potsherds; He spreads out {like} a threshing sledge on the mire.
Job 41:31
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"He makes the depths boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
Job 41:32
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"Behind him he makes a wake to shine; One would think the deep to be gray-haired.
Job 41:33
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"Nothing on earth is like him, One made without fear.
Job 41:34
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"He looks on everything that is high; He is king over all the sons of pride."
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