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Job 41 NHEB — Job 41

1 "Can you draw out Deinosuchus with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord? NHEB — Job 41:1

2 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook? NHEB — Job 41:2

3 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you? NHEB — Job 41:3

4 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever? NHEB — Job 41:4

5 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls? NHEB — Job 41:5

6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants? NHEB — Job 41:6

7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears? NHEB — Job 41:7

8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle, and you will never do it again. NHEB — Job 41:8

9 Look, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him? NHEB — Job 41:9

10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? NHEB — Job 41:10

11 Who has confronted me, that I should repay? Everything under the heavens is mine. NHEB — Job 41:11

12 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. NHEB — Job 41:12

13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws? NHEB — Job 41:13

14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. NHEB — Job 41:14

15 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal. NHEB — Job 41:15

16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. NHEB — Job 41:16

17 They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart. NHEB — Job 41:17

18 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. NHEB — Job 41:18

19 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth. NHEB — Job 41:19

20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds. NHEB — Job 41:20

21 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth. NHEB — Job 41:21

22 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him. NHEB — Job 41:22

23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved. NHEB — Job 41:23

24 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone. NHEB — Job 41:24

25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing. NHEB — Job 41:25

26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. NHEB — Job 41:26

27 He counts iron as straw; and bronze as rotten wood. NHEB — Job 41:27

28 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him. NHEB — Job 41:28

29 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin. NHEB — Job 41:29

30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. NHEB — Job 41:30

31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. NHEB — Job 41:31

32 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair. NHEB — Job 41:32

33 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear. NHEB — Job 41:33

34 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride." NHEB — Job 41:34