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The Lord Continues

Can You Catch a Sea Monster?

41 (A) Can you catch a sea monster[a]
    by using a fishhook?
Can you tie its mouth shut
    with a rope?

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Footnotes

  1. 41.1 sea monster: The Hebrew text has “Leviathan,” which may refer to a sea monster or possibly to a crocodile in this verse (see the note at 3.8).

41 [a]“Can you pull in Leviathan(A) with a fishhook(B)
    or tie down its tongue with a rope?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:1 In Hebrew texts 41:1-8 is numbered 40:25-32, and 41:9-34 is numbered 41:1-26.

26 (A) And there are the ships,
    as well as Leviathan,[a]
the monster you created
    to splash in the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. 104.26 Leviathan: See the note at 74.14.

26 There the ships(A) go to and fro,
    and Leviathan,(B) which you formed to frolic(C) there.(D)

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27 (A) On that day, Leviathan,[a]
    the sea monster,
will squirm and try to escape,
but the Lord will kill him
    with a cruel, sharp sword.

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Footnotes

  1. 27.1 Leviathan: God's victory over this monster sometimes stands for God's power over all creation and sometimes for his defeat of his enemies, especially Egypt.

Deliverance of Israel

27 In that day,(A)

the Lord will punish with his sword(B)
    his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan(C) the gliding serpent,(D)
    Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster(E) of the sea.

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