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The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan
41Verse 1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hookor tie down his tongue with a rope?Verse 2Can you put a cord through his noseor pierce his jaw with a hook?Verse 3Will he beg you for mercyor speak to you softly?Verse 4Will he make a covenant with youto take him as a slave for life?Verse 5Can you pet him like a birdor put him on a leash for your maidens?Verse 6Will traders barter for himor divide him among the merchants?Verse 7Can you fill his hide with harpoonsor his head with fishing spears?Verse 8If you lay a hand on him,you will remember the battle and never repeat it!Verse 9Surely hope of overcoming him is false.Is not the sight of him overwhelming?Verse 10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan.Then who is able to stand against Me?Verse 11Who has given to Me that I should repay him?+Everything under heaven is Mine.Verse 12I cannot keep silent about his limbs,his power and graceful form.Verse 13Who can strip off his outer coat?Who can approach him with a bridle?+Verse 14Who can open his jaws,ringed by his fearsome teeth?Verse 15His rows of scales are his pride,tightly sealed together.Verse 16One scale is so near to anotherthat no air can pass between them.Verse 17They are joined to one another;they clasp and cannot be separated.Verse 18His snorting flashes with light,and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.Verse 19Firebrands stream from his mouth;fiery sparks shoot forth!Verse 20Smoke billows from his nostrilsas from a boiling pot over burning reeds.Verse 21His breath sets coals ablaze,and flames pour from his mouth.Verse 22Strength resides in his neck,and dismay leaps before him.Verse 23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined;they are firm and immovable.Verse 24His chest is as hard as a rock,as hard as a lower millstone!Verse 25When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified;they withdraw before his thrashing.Verse 26The sword that reaches him has no effect,nor does the spear or dart or arrow.Verse 27He regards iron as strawand bronze as rotten wood.Verse 28No arrow can make him flee;slingstones become like chaff to him.Verse 29A club is regarded as straw,and he laughs at the sound of the lance.+Verse 30His undersides are jagged potsherds,spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.Verse 31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron;he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.Verse 32He leaves a glistening wake behind him;one would think the deep had white hair!Verse 33Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!Verse 34He looks down on all the haughty;he is king over all the proud.”