Job Chapter 41
Revised Standard Version
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'Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
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Can you put a rope in his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook?
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Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak to you soft words?
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Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant for ever?
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Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on leash for your maidens?
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Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
Cross-references
Jdg 14:11
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Can you fill his skin with harpoons, or his head with fishing spears?
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Lay hands on him; think of the battle; you will not do it again!
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Behold, the hope of a man is disappointed; he is laid low even at the sight of him.
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No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he that can stand before me?
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Who has given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
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'I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.
Cross-references
Gen 1:25
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Who can strip off his outer garment? Who can penetrate his double coat of mail?
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Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
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His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.
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One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
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They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
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His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
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Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
Cross-references
Jer 1:13-14
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His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
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In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.
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The folds of his flesh cleave together, firmly cast upon him and immovable.
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His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the nether millstone.
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When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.
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Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail; nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
Cross-references
Job 39:21-24
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He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
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The arrow cannot make him flee; for him slingstones are turned to stubble.
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His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
Cross-references
Isa 41:15
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He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
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Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be hoary.
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He beholds everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.'
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