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href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Will it keep begging you for mercy?</p><p class="line2">Will it speak to you with gentle words?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Will it make an agreement with you</p><p class="line2">for you to take it as your slave for life?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Can you make a pet of it like a bird</p><p class="line2">or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Will traders barter for it?</p><p class="line2">Will they divide it up among the merchants?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Can you fill its hide with harpoons</p><p class="line2">or its head with fishing spears?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If you lay a hand on it,</p><p class="line2">you will remember the struggle and never do it again!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Any hope of subduing it is false;</p><p class="line2">the mere sight of it is overpowering.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>No one is fierce enough to rouse it.</p><p class="line2">Who then is able to stand against me?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Who has a claim against me that I must pay?</p><p class="line2">Everything under heaven belongs to me.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,</p><p class="line2">its strength and its graceful form.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who can strip off its outer coat?</p><p class="line2">Who can penetrate its double coat of armor <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint; Hebrew double bridle">a</a></sup></span> ?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Who dares open the doors of its mouth,</p><p class="line2">ringed about with fearsome teeth?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Its back has <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Its pride is its">b</a></sup></span> rows of shields</p><p class="line2">tightly sealed together;</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>each is so close to the next</p><p class="line2">that no air can pass between.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They are joined fast to one another;</p><p class="line2">they cling together and cannot be parted.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Its snorting throws out flashes of light;</p><p class="line2">its eyes are like the rays of dawn.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Flames stream from its mouth;</p><p class="line2">sparks of fire shoot out.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Smoke pours from its nostrils</p><p class="line2">as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Its breath sets coals ablaze,</p><p class="line2">and flames dart from its mouth.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Strength resides in its neck;</p><p class="line2">dismay goes before it.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;</p><p class="line2">they are firm and immovable.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Its chest is hard as rock,</p><p class="line2">hard as a lower millstone.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;</p><p class="line2">they retreat before its thrashing.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The sword that reaches it has no effect,</p><p class="line2">nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Iron it treats like straw</p><p class="line2">and bronze like rotten wood.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Arrows do not make it flee;</p><p class="line2">slingstones are like chaff to it.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>A club seems to it but a piece of straw;</p><p class="line2">it laughs at the rattling of the lance.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Its undersides are jagged potsherds,</p><p class="line2">leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron</p><p class="line2">and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>It leaves a glistening wake behind it;</p><p class="line2">one would think the deep had white hair.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Nothing on earth is its equal—</p><p class="line2">a creature without fear.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>It looks down on all that are haughty;</p><p class="line2">it is king over all that are proud.”</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotebot">Septuagint; Hebrew <i>double bridle</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Its pride is 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