God’s Power Shown in Creatures: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTRE

Job, Chapter 41

“^aCan you draw out^bLeviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?

“Can you put a^crope in his nose
Or pierce his jaw with a^dhook?

“Will he make many supplications to you,
Or will he speak to you soft words?

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“Will he make a covenant with you?
Will you take him for a servant forever?

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“Will you play with him as with a bird,
Or will you bind him for your maidens?

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“Will the^etraders bargain over him?
Will they divide him among the merchants?

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“Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?

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“Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle;^fyou will not do it again!

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“^gBehold,^hyour expectation is false;
Willⁱyou be laid low even at the sight of him?

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“No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him;
Who then is he that can stand before Me?

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“Who has^jgiven to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.

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“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
Or his mighty strength, or his^korderly frame.

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“Who can^lstrip off his outer armor?
Who can come within his double^mmail?

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“Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth there is terror.

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“Hisⁿstrong scales are his pride,
Shut up as with a tight seal.

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“One is so near to another
That no air can come between them.

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“They are joined one to another;
They clasp each other and cannot be separated.

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“His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

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“Out of his mouth go burning torches;
Sparks of fire leap forth.

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“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

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“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

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“In his neck lodges strength,
And dismay leaps before him.

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“The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm on him and immovable.

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“His heart is as hard as a stone,
Even as hard as a lower millstone.

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“When he raises himself up, the^omighty fear;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

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“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor the spear, the dart or the javelin.

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“He regards iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.

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“The^parrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are turned into stubble for him.

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“Clubs are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.

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“His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
He^qspreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.

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“He makes the depths boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

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“Behind him he makes a wake to shine;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired.

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“Nothing on^rearth is like him,
One made without fear.

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“^sHe looks on everything that is high;
He is king over all the sons of pride.”


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