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41:1  Eternal One: Now let us not stop here. What of Leviathan? Can you haul it in on the end of a hook or strap down its tongue with your line?
41:2  Will you subdue it with a fragile reed through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
41:3  Do you imagine it will beg you endlessly for mercy or lower its voice to a whisper when speaking to you?
41:4  Will it strike a deal with you and enter into your service as a lifelong slave?
41:5  Will you play with it as you would a pet bird or put it on a leash for your girls?
41:6  Will traders haggle over its price and others seek to divide it up among the merchants?
41:7  Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
41:8  If you are able to lay a hand on it, You will remember the struggle all of your days, and you will never do it again.
41:9  Now look, any expectation you could subdue it will be shattered. Just the sight of it is enough to overpower you.
41:10  No one is fierce enough to dare disturb it. So is there anyone in all the earth who dares to stand up to Me?
41:11  Who could ever confront Me and force Me to repay him? Everything and everyone under heaven is Mine!
41:12  I will not be silent regarding Leviathan’s powerful limbs, its enormous strength, or its beautiful form.
41:13  Who can reveal what is under its outer armor covering or penetrate down through its double coat of mail?
41:14  Who can pry open its enormous jaws? Remember: its teeth are a terror from every angle.
41:15  Its back is covered with rows of shields that overlap and shut with a tight seal—
41:16  One against another, so close that no wind passes between them.
41:17  They are joined to one another, inseparably locked.
41:18  When it sneezes, light flashes from its nostrils; its eyes are like the rays of the morning sun.
41:19  Fire streams from its mouth as fiery sparks fly outward.
41:20  Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot or a brush fire.
41:21  Its searing breath sets coals ablaze; its flaming tongue darts from its mouth.
41:22  Leviathan’s neck bristles with raw power; terror dances before him.
41:23  The creases in its flesh fuse together: firm, fixed, immovable.
41:24  Its heart is rock hard, as hard as a lower millstone, impervious to grinding.
41:25  When the beast rises up and moves near, the mighty ones shudder in fear; when it crashes down, they retreat.
41:26  The sword that reaches it may strike but to no effect, so, too, the spear, the dart, and the lance.
41:27  For it treats iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
41:28  The arrow cannot force its retreat, and the stone from the sling shatters on impact.
41:29  A club is no more dangerous to it than a piece of straw; it taunts and laughs at the rattling lance.
41:30  Its underbelly is as sharp as broken pottery shards; it easily dredges a channel in the mud behind it.
41:31  It brings the deep to a rolling boil like a pot over a hot fire; in its course it stirs the sea like a pot of ointment.
41:32  Behind it, the wake is bright and shining, as if the sea has long white hair.
41:33  Nothing on earth is its equal, this creature fashioned without fear.
41:34  It looks upon all the high and mighty— this king over the children of pride.