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nsb@Job:41:1 @ GOD CONTINUES TO QUESTION JOB:

nsb@Job:41:2 @ »Can you catch Leviathan with a fishhook or tie his tongue down with a rope?

nsb@Job:41:3 @ »Can you put a rope through his snout or put a hook through his jaws?

nsb@Job:41:4 @ »Will he beg you to let him go? Will he plead with you for mercy?

nsb@Job:41:5 @ »Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?

nsb@Job:41:6 @ »Will you tie him like a pet bird, like something to amuse your servant women?

nsb@Job:41:7 @ »Will fishermen bargain over him? Will merchants cut him up to sell?

nsb@Job:41:8 @ »Can you fill his hide with fishing spears or pierce his head with a harpoon?

nsb@Job:41:9 @ »Indeed, hope of overcoming him is false. Should you be overwhelmed at the sight of him?

nsb@Job:41:10 @ »No one is as fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against me?

nsb@Job:41:11 @ »Who has preceded me that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is mine.

nsb@Job:41:12 @ »I will not conceal his limbs, his mighty power, or his graceful proportions.

nsb@Job:41:13 @ »Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?

nsb@Job:41:14 @ »Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?

nsb@Job:41:15 @ »His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as a seal.

nsb@Job:41:16 @ »One is so near another that no air can come between them.

nsb@Job:41:17 @ »They are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted.

nsb@Job:41:18 @ »Its sneezes flash forth light, and its eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

nsb@Job:41:19 @ »From its mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap out.

nsb@Job:41:20 @ »Out of its nostrils comes smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

nsb@Job:41:21 @ »Its breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of its mouth.

nsb@Job:41:22 @ »In its neck abides strength, and terror dances before it.

nsb@Job:41:23 @ »The folds of its flesh cling together; it is firmly cast and immovable.

nsb@Job:41:24 @ »Its heart is as hard as stone, as hard as the lower millstone.

nsb@Job:41:25 @ »When it raises itself up the gods are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.

nsb@Job:41:26 @ »Though the sword reaches it, it does not avail, nor does the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

nsb@Job:41:27 @ »It considers iron to be like straw and bronze to be like rotten wood.

nsb@Job:41:28 @ »An arrow will not make it run away. Stones from a sling turn to dust against it.

nsb@Job:41:29 @ »It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin.

nsb@Job:41:30 @ »Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery. It stretches out like a threshing sledge on the mud.

nsb@Job:41:31 @ »It makes the deep sea boil like a pot. It stirs up the ocean like a boiling kettle.

nsb@Job:41:32 @ »It leaves a shining path behind it so that the sea appears to have silvery hair.

nsb@Job:41:33 @ »Nothing on land can compare to it. It was made fearless.

nsb@Job:41:34 @ »It looks down on all high things. It is king of everyone who is arrogant.

Job 41