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\c 41
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\p
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\q
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\v 1 Can you draw out leviathan with a fishhook?
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\q Or tie up his jaws with a cord?
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\q
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\v 2 Can you put a rope into his nose,
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\q or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
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\q
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\v 3 Will he make many pleas to you?
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\q Will he speak soft words to you?
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\q
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\v 4 Will he make an agreement with you,
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\q that you should take him for a servant forever?
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\q
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\v 5 Will you play with him as you would with a bird?
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\q Will you tie him for your servant girls?
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\q
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\v 6 Will the groups of fishermen bargain for him?
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\q Will they divide him up to trade among the merchants?
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\q
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\v 7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons
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\q or his head with fishing spears?
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\q
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\v 8 Put your hand on him just once,
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\q and you will remember the battle and do it no more.
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\q
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\v 9 See, the hope of anyone who does that is a lie;
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\q will not anyone be thrown down to the ground just by the sight of him?
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\b
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\q
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\v 10 None is so fierce that he dare stir leviathan up;
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\q who, then, is he who can stand before me?
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\q
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\v 11 Who has first given anything to me in order that I should repay him?
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\q Whatever is under the whole sky is mine.
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\b
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\q
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\v 12 I will not keep silent concerning leviathan’s legs,
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\q nor about the matter of his strength, nor about his graceful form.
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\q
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\v 13 Who can strip off his outer covering?
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\q Who can penetrate his double armor?
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\q
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\v 14 Who can open the doors of his face—
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\q ringed with his teeth, which are a terror?
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\q
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\v 15 His back is made up of rows of shields,
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\q close together as with a close seal.
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\b
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\q
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\v 16 One is so near to another
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\q that no air can come between them.
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\q
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\v 17 They are joined to each other;
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\q they stick together, so that they cannot be pulled apart.
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\q
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\v 18 Light flashes out from his snorting;
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\q his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning dawn.
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\q
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\v 19 Out of his mouth go burning torches,
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\q sparks of fire leap out.
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\q
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\v 20 Out of his nostrils goes smoke
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\q like a boiling pot on a fire that has been fanned to be very hot.
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\q
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\v 21 His breath kindles coals into flame;
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\q fires go out from his mouth.
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\q
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\v 22 In his neck is strength,
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\q and terror dances in front of him.
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\q
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\v 23 The folds of his flesh are joined together;
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\q they are firm on him; they cannot be moved.
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\q
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\v 24 His heart is as hard as a stone—
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\q indeed, as hard as a lower millstone.
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\q
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\v 25 When he raises himself up, even the gods become afraid;
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\q because of fear, they draw back.
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\q
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\v 26 If a sword strikes him, it does nothing—
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\q and neither does a spear, an arrow, or any other pointed weapon.
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\q
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\v 27 He thinks of iron as if it were straw,
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\q and of bronze as if it were rotten wood.
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\q
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\v 28 An arrow cannot make him flee;
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\q to him sling stones become chaff.
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\q
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\v 29 Clubs are regarded as straw;
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\q he laughs at the whirring flight of a spear.
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\q
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\v 30 His lower parts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery;
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\q he leaves a spreading trail in the mud as if he were a threshing sledge.
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\q
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\v 31 He makes the deep to foam up like a pot of boiling water;
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\q he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
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\q
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\v 32 He makes the path to shine after him;
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\q one would think the deep to be white.
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\q
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\v 33 On earth there is no equal to him,
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\q who has been made to live without fear.
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\q
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\v 34 He sees everything that is proud;
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\q he is king over all the sons of pride.”
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