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| [1]Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down -- his tongue? |
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| [2]Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw? |
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| [3]Doth he multiply unto thee supplications? Doth he speak unto thee tender things? |
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| [4]Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during? |
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| [5]Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels? |
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| [6](Feast upon him do companions, They divide him among the merchants!) |
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| [7]Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with fish-spears his head? |
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| [8]Place on him thy hand, Remember the battle -- do not add! |
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| [9]Lo, the hope of him is found a liar, Also at his appearance is not one cast down? |
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| [10]None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who [is] he before Me stationeth himself? |
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| [11]Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] mine. |
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| [12]I do not keep silent concerning his parts, And the matter of might, And the grace of his arrangement. |
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| [13]Who hath uncovered the face of his clothing? Within his double bridle who doth enter? |
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| [14]The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth [are] terrible. |
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| [15]A pride -- strong ones of shields, Shut up -- a close seal. |
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| [16]One unto another they draw nigh, And air doth not enter between them. |
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| [17]One unto another they adhere, They stick together and are not separated. |
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| [18]His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes [are] as the eyelids of the dawn. |
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| [19]Out of his mouth do flames go, sparks of fire escape. |
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| [20]Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, As a blown pot and reeds. |
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| [21]His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth. |
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| [22]In his neck lodge doth strength, And before him doth grief exult. |
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| [23]The flakes of his flesh have adhered -- Firm upon him -- it is not moved. |
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| [24]His heart [is] firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the lower piece. |
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| [25]From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free. |
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| [26]The sword of his overtaker standeth not, Spear -- dart -- and lance. |
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| [27]He reckoneth iron as straw, brass as rotten wood. |
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| [28]The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by him into stubble are stones of the sling. |
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| [29]As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin. |
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| [30]Under him [are] sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire. |
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| [31]He causeth to boil as a pot the deep, The sea he maketh as a pot of ointment. |
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| [32]After him he causeth a path to shine, One thinketh the deep to be hoary. |
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| [33]There is not on the earth his like, That is made without terror. |
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| [34]Every high thing he doth see, He [is] king over all sons of pride. |
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