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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.

14 (A) You crushed the heads
    of the monster Leviathan,[a]
then fed him to wild creatures
    in the desert.

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  1. 74.14 Leviathan: God's victory over this monster sometimes stands for his power over all creation and sometimes for his defeat of Egypt.

14 It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan(A)
    and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.(B)

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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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  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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