040:009 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a
voice like him?
040:010 "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity.
Array yourself with honor and majesty.
040:011 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud,
and bring him low.
040:012 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked
in their place.
040:013 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in
the hidden place.
040:014 Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand
can save you.
040:015 "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you.
He eats grass as an ox.
040:016 Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in
the muscles of his belly.
040:017 He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs
are knit together.
040:018 His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like
bars of iron.
040:019 He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives
him his sword.
040:020 Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals
of the field play.
040:021 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed,
and the marsh.
040:022 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of
the brook surround him.
040:023 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble.
He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
040:024 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through
his nose with a snare?
041:001 "Can you draw out Leviathan{Leviathan is a name for a crocodile
or similar creature.} with a fishhook, or press down his tongue
with a cord?
041:002 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through
with a hook?
041:003 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft
words to you?
041:004 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him
for a servant forever?
041:005 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him
for your girls?
041:006 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
041:007 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head
with fish spears?
041:008 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
041:009 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down
even at the sight of him?
041:010 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is
he who can stand before me?
041:011 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Everything under the heavens is mine.
041:012 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his
mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
041:013 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come
within his jaws?
041:014 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
041:015 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
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