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How ferocious it is when aroused!
    No one could ever stand up to confront it.[a]
Who has attacked it and remained unscathed?
    There has never been anyone under the heavens.
“Nor will I keep silence about its limbs,
    or its strength, or its magnificent frame.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:2 Confront it: some translate: “confront me.”

Can you put a cord through its nose(A)
    or pierce its jaw with a hook?(B)
Will it keep begging you for mercy?(C)
    Will it speak to you with gentle words?
Will it make an agreement with you
    for you to take it as your slave for life?(D)

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Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

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