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Will it speak to you with gentle words?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and its graceful form.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">One is so near to another that no air can come between them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The arrow cannot make him flee; for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Nothing on earth is its equal-- a creature without fear.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext1">It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/41-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href="//niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="//biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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