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41:1  “Can you catch Leviathan [C a large sea creature or monster; 3:8] 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 [L pierce its jaw/cheek with a hook]?
41:3  Will it keep begging you for mercy and speak to you with ·gentle [soft; kind; tender] words?
41:4  Will it ·make [L cut] an ·agreement [covenant; treaty] with you and let you take it as your slave ·for life [L forever]?
41:5  Can you ·make a pet of Leviathan [L play with it] as you would a bird or put it on a leash for your girls?
41:6  Will ·traders [the fishing guild] try to ·bargain [haggle] with you for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
41:7  Can you stick ·darts [harpoons] all over its skin or fill its head with fishing spears?
41:8  If you put one hand on it, you will ·never forget [L remember] the battle, and you will never do it again!
41:9  ·There is no hope of defeating it [Any hope of defeating/subduing it will prove a lie]; just seeing it ·overwhelms people [L throws people down].
41:10  No one is ·brave [fierce] enough to ·make it angry [arouse it; stir it up], so who would be able to stand up against ·me [or it]?
41:11  ·No one [L Who…?] has ever ·given me anything that I must pay back [or confronted it and come out whole/safe], ·because everything under the sky belongs to me [or who—under the entire heavens?].
41:12  “I will ·speak [L not keep quiet] about Leviathan’s ·arms and legs [limbs], its great strength and ·well-formed body [L grace of form].
41:13  ·No one [L Who…?] can ·tear off [L expose] its outer ·hide [L garment] or ·poke [enter] through its double armor.
41:14  ·No one [L Who…?] can force open ·its great jaws [L the doors of its face]; 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 [L draws near the other, so] that no air can go between them.
41:17  ·They are joined strongly to one another [L Each clings to its neighbor]; they hold on to each other and cannot be ·separated [broken off].
41:18  When it ·snorts [sneezes], 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 [or Violence leaps before it].
41:23  The folds of its skin are tightly joined; they are set and cannot be moved.
41:24  Its ·chest [L heart] is as hard as a rock, even as hard as a ·grinding stone [lower millstone].
41:25  The ·powerful [mighty; or gods] fear ·its terrible looks [L when it lifts itself up] and ·draw back in fear as it moves [or the waves miss their mark/retreat].
41:26  The sword that ·hits [approaches] it does not hurt it, nor the arrows, darts, and spears.
41:27  It ·treats [considers] 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 [chaff] to it, and it laughs when they ·shake [rattle] a spear at it.
41:30  The underside of its body is like ·broken [or sharp] 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 [L boil like a] pot; it ·stirs up the sea like a pot of oil [L makes the sea like ointment].
41:32  ·When it swims [L After it], 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 [proud; lofty]; it is king over all proud creatures.”