Job 41

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1. 1Can you draw out leviathan with a hook? Or his tongue with a cord that you let down?
2. 2Can you put a hook into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a thorn?
3. 3Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak soft words to you?
4. 4Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever?
5. 5Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens?
6. 6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they divide him among the merchants?
7. 7Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? Or his head with fish spears?
8. 8Lay your hand upon him; remember the battle, and do no more.
9. 9Any hope of capturing him is in vain; the very sight of him is overwhelming.
10. 10No one is so fierce that he dares stir him up. Who then is able to stand before me?
11. 11Who has preceded me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12. 12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13. 13Who can uncover the face of his garment? Or who can come to him with his double bridle?
14. 14Who can open the doors of his face? His teeth are terrible all around.
15. 15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16. 16One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
17. 17They are joined one to another; they stick together so that they cannot be separated.
18. 18By his sneezings a light does shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19. 19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20. 20Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a boiling pot or cauldron.
21. 21His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
22. 22In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
23. 23The flakes of his flesh are joined together; they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24. 24His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the lower millstone.
25. 25When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26. 26The sword of him that reaches him cannot hold; the spear, the dart, nor the coat of mail.
27. 27He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
28. 28The arrow cannot make him flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for him.
29. 29Darts are counted as stubble; he laughs at the shaking of a spear.
30. 30Sharp stones are under him; he spreads sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31. 31He makes the deep to boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32. 32He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
33. 33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34. 34He beholds all high things; he is a king over all the children of pride.