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God’s Power Shown in Creatures
1 “1Ch 40:25 in HebCan you draw out 2Or the crocodileAJob 3:8; Ps 74:14; 104:26; Is 27:1Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?
Or pierce his jaw with a 2Or thorn or ringhook?
3 “Will he make many supplications to you,
Or will he speak to you soft words?
4 “Will he make a covenant with you?
Will you take him for a servant forever?
5 “Will you play with him as with a bird,
Or will you bind him for your maidens?
6 “Will the 1Lit partnerstraders bargain over him?
Will they divide him among the merchants?
7 “Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?
8 “Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle; 1Lit do not addyou will not do it again!
Will 3Lit heyou be laid low even at the sight of him?
10 “No one is so fierce that he dares to AJob 3:8arouse him;
Who then is he that can stand before Me?
Whatever is BEx 19:5; Deut 10:14; Job 9:5-10; 26:6-14; 28:24; Ps 24:1; 50:12; 1 Cor 10:26under the whole heaven is Mine.
12 “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
Or his mighty strength, or his 1Or gracefulorderly frame.
13 “Who can 1Lit uncover the face of his garmentstrip off his outer armor?
Who can come within his double 2So Gr; Heb bridlemail?
14 “Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth there is terror.
Shut up as with a tight seal.
16 “One is so near to another
That no air can come between them.
17 “They are joined one to another;
They clasp each other and cannot be separated.
18 “His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the AJob 3:9eyelids of the morning.
19 “Out of his mouth go burning torches;
Sparks of fire leap forth.
20 “Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
21 “His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
22 “In his neck lodges strength,
And dismay leaps before him.
23 “The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm on him and immovable.
24 “His heart is as hard as a stone,
Even as hard as a lower millstone.
25 “When he raises himself up, the 1Or godsmighty fear;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
26 “The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor the spear, the dart or the javelin.
27 “He regards iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.
28 “The 1Lit son of the bowarrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are turned into stubble for him.
29 “Clubs are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.
30 “His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
He 1Or moves acrossspreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.
31 “He makes the depths boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
32 “Behind him he makes a wake to shine;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired.
One made without fear.
34 “1Ch 41:26 in HebHe looks on everything that is high;
He is king over all the AJob 28:8sons of pride.”
141:1 Ch 40:25 in Heb
241:1 Or the crocodile
A41:1 Job 3:8; Ps 74:14; 104:26; Is 27:1
141:2 Lit rope of rushes
241:2 Or thorn or ring
141:6 Lit partners
141:8 Lit do not add
141:9 Ch 41:1 in Heb
241:9 Lit his
341:9 Lit he
141:11 Lit anticipated
B41:11 Ex 19:5; Deut 10:14; Job 9:5-10; 26:6-14; 28:24; Ps 24:1; 50:12; 1 Cor 10:26
141:12 Or graceful
141:13 Lit uncover the face of his garment
241:13 So Gr; Heb bridle
141:15 Lit rows of shields
141:25 Or gods
141:28 Lit son of the bow
141:30 Or moves across
141:33 Lit dust
141:34 Ch 41:26 in Heb