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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 agree to work for you, to be 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 it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?<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 merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops?<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">Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon?<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 certainly remember the battle that follows. You won’t try that 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"> No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down.<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">And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to 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 given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine.<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 want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs and its enormous strength and 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 hide, and who can penetrate its double layer 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 could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!<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">The scales on its back are like 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">They are so close together that no air can get between them.<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">Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated.<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">“When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red 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">Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash 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 streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.<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 would kindle coals, for flames shoot 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">“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck strikes terror wherever it goes.<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">Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated.<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 heart is hard as rock, hard as a 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, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror.<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">No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or 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 is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is 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 cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.<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">Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.<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 belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.<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">“Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. It stirs the depths 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">The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white.<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, no other creature so fearless.<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">Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts.”<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%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="//www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. 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