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41:1  "Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?
41:2  Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike?
41:3  Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?
41:4  Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life?
41:5  Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?
41:6  Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops?
41:7  Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon?
41:8  If you lay a hand on it, you will certainly remember the battle that follows. You won't try that again!
41:9  No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down.
41:10  And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to me?
41:11  Who has given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine.
41:12  "I want to emphasize Leviathan's limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form.
41:13  Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?
41:14  Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!
41:15  Its scales are like rows of shields tightly sealed together.
41:16  They are so close together that no air can get between them.
41:17  Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated.
41:18  "When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn.
41:19  Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out.
41:20  Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.
41:21  Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.
41:22  "The tremendous strength in Leviathan's neck strikes terror wherever it goes.
41:23  Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated.
41:24  Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone.
41:25  When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror.
41:26  No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or javelin.
41:27  Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood.
41:28  Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.
41:29  Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.
41:30  Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.
41:31  "Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment.
41:32  The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white.
41:33  Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless.
41:34  Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts."