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41:1   "Can you draw Leviathan out of the water with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope?
41:2  Can you attach a bridle to his snout, or pierce his jaw with a hook?
41:3  Will he make many supplications to you, or will he beg you for mercy?
41:4  Will he try to make a deal with you, so that you may take him in servitude forever?
41:5  "Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls?
41:6  Will your business be able to buy him, Will you divide him among your merchant friends?
41:7  Will you fill his flesh with harpoons, or his head with lances?
41:8  Lay your hand on him, and you'll remember the struggle. You'll never do that again!
41:9  "Look! Anyone's hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him.
41:10  No one is fierce enough to dare to arouse him. "Who, then, can stand in my presence and face me?
41:11  Who can take me to court and be reconciled to me? All of heaven is mine.
41:12  "I won't be silent concerning his limbs, his mighty strength, and orderly frame.
41:13  Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can approach him with a bridle?
41:14  Who dares to open his mouth, since it is ringed with his terrible teeth!
41:15  His protective scales are his pride, they lie sealed tightly together.
41:16  Each one is so close to the other that not even air comes in between them.
41:17  Each is attached to the other, grasping each other so they cannot be separated.
41:18  "His snorting releases flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of the dawn.
41:19  Flames blaze from his mouth; streams of sparking fire fly out.
41:20  Smoke billows from his nostrils; like a boiling pot or burning reeds.
41:21  His breath can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth.
41:22  "His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified.
41:23  There is no flaw in his body's armor; it is firmly fixed on him and unbreachable.
41:24  His heart is as strong as stone, it is as hard as a lower millstone.
41:25  When he rears up, the mighty are terrified; they are bewildered as he thrashes about.
41:26  "Thrusting at him with a sword won't be effective, nor will spears, darts, or javelins.
41:27  He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree.
41:28  Arrows won't make him flee; stones from a sling are only pebbles to him.
41:29  Clubs are like twigs; he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin.
41:30  "Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain.
41:31  He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.
41:32  The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair.
41:33  "There's nothing like him on earth; he was created without the ability to fear.
41:34  He looks down on everything that is high; he rules over every kind of pride."