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41:1 Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth? 41:2 Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue? 41:3 Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you? 41:4 Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever? 41:5 Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women? 41:6 Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders? 41:7 Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head? 41:8 Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again! 41:9 Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him! 41:10 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me? 41:11 Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven! 41:12 I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame. 41:13 Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron? 41:14 Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth. 41:15 His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp. 41:16 One is so near to the other that no air may come between them. 41:17 They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted. 41:18 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn. 41:19 Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up. 41:20 Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire. 41:21 His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. 41:22 Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him. 41:23 The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved. 41:24 His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone. 41:25 When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear. 41:26 The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron. 41:27 Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood. 41:28 The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems. 41:29 A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear. 41:30 Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth. 41:31 The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel. 41:32 After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white. 41:33 On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear. 41:34 Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.