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        • 1. "Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
            • 2. Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
                • 3. Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?
                    • 4. Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?
                        • 5. Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
                            • 6. Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
                                • 7. Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
                                    • 8. If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
                                        • 9. Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
                                            • 10. No one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
                                                • 11. Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
                                                    • 12. "I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.
                                                        • 13. Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?
                                                            • 14. Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
                                                                • 15. His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
                                                                    • 16. each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
                                                                        • 17. They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
                                                                            • 18. His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
                                                                                • 19. Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
                                                                                    • 20. Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
                                                                                        • 21. His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
                                                                                            • 22. Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.
                                                                                                • 23. The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
                                                                                                    • 24. His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
                                                                                                        • 25. When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
                                                                                                            • 26. The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
                                                                                                                • 27. Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
                                                                                                                    • 28. Arrows do not make him flee; slingstones are like chaff to him.
                                                                                                                        • 29. A club seems to him but a piece of straw; he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
                                                                                                                            • 30. His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
                                                                                                                                • 31. He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
                                                                                                                                    • 32. Behind him he leaves a glistening wake; one would think the deep had white hair.
                                                                                                                                        • 33. Nothing on earth is his equal--a creature without fear.
                                                                                                                                            • 34. He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud."
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