The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan 1 UDB "Think also about crocodiles. Can you catch them with a fishhook or fasten their jaws with a rope? BSB BSB: “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 UDB Can you put ropes through their noses to control them or thrust hooks through their jaws? BSB BSB: Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 UDB Will they plead with you to act mercifully toward them or use sweet talk in order that you will not harm them? BSB BSB: Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
4 UDB Will they make an agreement with you to work for you, to be your slaves as long as they live? BSB BSB: Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
5 UDB Can you make them into pets like you do birds? Can you put a leash around their necks so that your servant girls can play with them? BSB BSB: Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
6 UDB Will men who partner in selling fish try to sell them in the market? Will they cut a crocodile up into pieces and sell the meat? BSB BSB: Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
7 UDB Can you pierce crocodiles through their hides by throwing fishing spears at them? Can you pierce their heads with a harpoon? BSB BSB: Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 UDB If you grab one of them with your hands, it will give you a battle that you will never forget, and you will never try to do it again! BSB BSB: If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
9 UDB It is useless to even hope to subdue them. Anyone who tries to subdue one of them will fall to the ground out of fear. BSB BSB: Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
10 UDB No one dares to make a crocodile angry. So, since I am much more powerful than they are, who would dare to cause me to be angry? BSB BSB: No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
11 UDB Also, everything on the earth is mine. Therefore, no one is able to give anything to me and require me to pay money for it! BSB BSB: Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
12 UDB I will tell you about how strong crocodiles' legs are and how strong their well formed bodies are. BSB BSB: I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
13 UDB Can anyone strip off their hides? Can anyone pierce through their double layer of armor? BSB BSB: Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
14 UDB Can anyone pry open their jaws, which have terrible teeth in them? BSB BSB: Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
15 UDB They have rows of scales on their back which are as hard as rock. BSB BSB: His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
16 UDB The scales are very close together; not even air can get between them. BSB BSB: One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
17 UDB The scales are joined very closely to each other, and they cannot be separated. BSB BSB: They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
18 UDB When crocodiles sneeze, the tiny drops of water that come out of their noses sparkle in the sunlight. Their eyes are red like the rising sun. BSB BSB: His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 UDB It is as though sparks of fire poured out of their mouths. BSB BSB: Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
20 UDB Smoke pours out of their nostrils as steam comes out of a pot that is put over a very, very hot fire. BSB BSB: Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 UDB Their breath can cause coals to blaze and flames to shoot out from their mouths. BSB BSB: His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
22 UDB Their necks are very strong; wherever they go, they make people very afraid. BSB BSB: Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
23 UDB The folds in their flesh are very close together and are very hard. BSB BSB: The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24 UDB They are fearless because the inner parts of their bodies are as hard as a rock, as hard as the lower millstone on which people grind grain. BSB BSB: His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
25 UDB When they rise up, they cause even very strong people to be terrified. As a result, people fall back. BSB BSB: When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
26 UDB People cannot injure them with swords; spears, arrows, or or other weapons with sharp points cannot injure them, either. BSB BSB: The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
27 UDB They certainly are not afraid of weapons made of straw or rotten wood, but they are not even afraid of weapons made of iron or bronze! BSB BSB: He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
28 UDB Shooting arrows at them does not cause them to run away. Hurling stones at them from a sling is like hurling bits of chaff at them. BSB BSB: No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
29 UDB They are not afraid of clubs anymore than they would be afraid of men throwing bits of straw at them, and they laugh when they hear a spear coming at them. BSB BSB: A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
30 UDB Their bellies are covered with scales that are as sharp as broken pieces of pottery. When they drag themselves through the mud, their bellies tear up the ground like a plow. BSB BSB: His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 UDB They stir up the water and cause it to foam as they churn through it. BSB BSB: He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
32 UDB As they go through the water, their wakes glisten. People who see it would think that the foam had become white hair. BSB BSB: He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
33 UDB There are no creatures on earth that I have created as fearless as crocodiles. BSB BSB: Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!
34 UDB They are the proudest of all the creatures; they are like kings over all the other wild animals." BSB BSB: He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”
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