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- Canst thou draw out Leuiathan with an hooke?
or his tongue with a corde which thou lettest downe?
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- Canst thou put an hooke into his nose?
or bore his iawe through with a thorne?
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- Will he make many supplications vnto thee?
will he speake soft words vnto thee?
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- Will he make a couenant with thee?
wilt thou take him for a seruant for euer?
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- Wilt thou play with him as with a birde?
wilt thou binde him for thy maydens?
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- Shall the companions make a banquet of him?
shall they part him among the merchants?
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- Canst thou fill his skinne with barbed irons?
or his head with fishspeares?
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- Lay thine hand vpon him, remember the battell: doe no more.
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- Behold, the hope of him is in vaine: shall not one be cast downe euen at the sight of him?
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- None is so fierce that dare stirre him vp: who then is able to stand before me?
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- Who hath preuented me that I should repay him?
whatsoeuer is vnder the whole heauen, is mine.
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- I will not conceale his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
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- Who can discouer the face of his garment?
or who can come to him, with his double bridle?
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- Who can open the doores of his face?
his teeth are terrible round about.
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- His scales are his pride, shut vp together as with a close seale.
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- One is so neere to another, that no ayre can come betweene them.
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- They are ioyned one to another, they sticke together, that they cannot be sundred.
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- By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eye-liddes of the morning.
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- Out of his mouth goe burning lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out.
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- Out of his nostrels goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
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- His breath kindleth coales, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
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- In his necke remaineth strength, and sorrowe is turned into ioy before him.
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- The flakes of his flesh are ioyned together: they are firme in themselues, they cannot be moued.
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- His heart is as firme as a stone, yea as hard as a peece of the nether mil-stone.
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- When he rayseth vp himselfe, the mightie are afraid: by reason of breakings they purifie themselues.
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- The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the speare, the dart, nor the habergeon.
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- He esteemeth iron as straw, and brasse as rotten wood.
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- The arrow cannot make him flee: sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.
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- Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a speare.
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- Sharpe stones are vnder him: he spreadeth sharpe pointed things vpon the mire.
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- He maketh the deepe to boyle like a pot: hee maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment.
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- Hee maketh a path to shine after him;
one would thinke the deepe to bee hoarie.
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- Upon earth there is not his like: who is made without feare.
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- He beholdeth all high things: he is a king ouer all the children of pride.
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