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41:1  Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?
41:2  Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?
41:3  Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?
41:4  Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?
41:5  Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?
41:6  Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?
41:7  Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with his head?
41:8  Lay thy hand upon him : remember the battle, and speak no more.
41:9  Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down.
41:10  I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel : for who can resist my countenance?
41:11  Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
41:12  I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.
41:13  Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
41:14  Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
41:15  His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.
41:16  One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them :
41:17  They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.
41:18  His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.
41:19  Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.
41:20  Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.
41:21  His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
41:22  In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face.
41:23  The members of his flesh cleave one to another : he shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.
41:24  His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith's anvil.
41:25  When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves.
41:26  When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
41:27  For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
41:28  The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.
41:29  As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
41:30  The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
41:31  He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.
41:32  A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing old.
41:33  There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one.
41:34  He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children of pride.