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41:1  “Can you catch Leviathan on a fishhook or tie its tongue down with a rope?
41:2  Can you put a cord through its nose or a hook in its jaw?
41:3  Will it keep begging you for mercy and speak to you with gentle words?
41:4  Will it make an agreement with you and let you take it as your slave for life?
41:5  Can you make a pet of Leviathan as you would a bird or put it on a leash for your girls?
41:6  Will traders try to bargain with you for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
41:7  Can you stick darts all over its skin or fill its head with fishing spears?
41:8  If you put one hand on it, you will never forget the battle, and you will never do it again!
41:9  There is no hope of defeating it; just seeing it overwhelms people.
41:10  No one is brave enough to make it angry, so who would be able to stand up against me?
41:11  No one has ever given me anything that I must pay back, because everything under the sky belongs to me.
41:12  “I will speak about Leviathan’s arms and legs, its great strength and well-formed body.
41:13  No one can tear off its outer hide or poke through its double armor.
41:14  No one can force open its great jaws; they are filled with frightening teeth.
41:15  It has rows of shields on its back that are tightly sealed together.
41:16  Each shield is so close to the next one that no air can go between them.
41:17  They are joined strongly to one another; they hold on to each other and cannot be separated.
41:18  When it snorts, flashes of light are thrown out, and its eyes look like the light at dawn.
41:19  Flames blaze from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
41:20  Smoke pours out of its nose, as if coming from a large pot over a hot fire.
41:21  Its breath sets coals on fire, and flames come out of its mouth.
41:22  There is great strength in its neck. People are afraid and run away.
41:23  The folds of its skin are tightly joined; they are set and cannot be moved.
41:24  Its chest is as hard as a rock, even as hard as a grinding stone.
41:25  The powerful fear its terrible looks and draw back in fear as it moves.
41:26  The sword that hits it does not hurt it, nor the arrows, darts, and spears.
41:27  It treats iron as if it were straw and bronze metal as if it were rotten wood.
41:28  It does not run away from arrows; stones from slings are like chaff to it.
41:29  Clubs feel like pieces of straw to it, and it laughs when they shake a spear at it.
41:30  The underside of its body is like broken pieces of pottery. It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing board.
41:31  It makes the deep sea bubble like a boiling pot; it stirs up the sea like a pot of oil.
41:32  When it swims, it leaves a shining path in the water that makes the sea look as if it had white hair.
41:33  Nothing else on earth is equal to it; it is a creature without fear.
41:34  It looks down on all those who are too proud; it is king over all proud creatures.”