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

1 “Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?

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

2Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike?

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

3Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?

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

4Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life?

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

5Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?

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

6Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops?

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

7Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon?

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

8If you lay a hand on it, you will certainly remember the battle that follows. You won’t try that again!

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

9 No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down.

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

10And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to me?

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

11Who has given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine.

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

12“I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form.

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

13Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?

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

14Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!

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

15The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together.

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

16They are so close together that no air can get between them.

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

17Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated.

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

18“When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn.

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

19Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out.

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

20Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.

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

21Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.

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

22“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck strikes terror wherever it goes.

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

23Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated.

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

24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone.

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

25When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror.

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

26No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or javelin.

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

27Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood.

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

28Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.

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

29Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.

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

30Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.

31He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.

31“Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment.

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

32The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white.

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

33Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless.

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

34Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts.”

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