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