Job 41

Job 41:1

“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

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leviathan [Strong's H3882]

lettest down Heb. drownest

Job 41:2

Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

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Job 41:3

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

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Job 41:4

Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

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Job 41:5

Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

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Job 41:6

Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

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Job 41:7

Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

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Canst The Leviathan , לויתן [Strong's H3882] ,

Job 41:8

If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

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Job 41:9

Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

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Job 41:10

No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

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Job 41:11

Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

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Job 41:12

I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

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Job 41:13

Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

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with or , within

Job 41:14

Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

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Job 41:15

His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

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scales Heb. strong pieces of shields

Job 41:17

They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

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Job 41:18

His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

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Job 41:19

Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

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Job 41:20

Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

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Job 41:21

His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

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Job 41:22

Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

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Job 41:23

The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

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flakes Heb. fallings

Job 41:24

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

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Job 41:25

When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

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Job 41:26

The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

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habergeon or , breastplate

Job 41:28

No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

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Job 41:29

A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

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Job 41:30

His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

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Sharp stones Heb. Sharp pieces of potsherd

he So hard and impenetrable are his scales , that splinters of flint are the same to him as the softest reeds.

Job 41:31

He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

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Job 41:32

He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

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By his rapid passage through the water he makes it white with foam; and by his tail he causes the waves behind him to sparkle like a trail of light.

Job 41:33

Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!

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Job 41:34

He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”

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