Book - Job - Chapter = 41 --> NLT
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"Can you catch a crocodile with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?
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Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike?
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Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?
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Will it agree to work for you? Can you make it be your slave for life?
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Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?
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Will merchants try to buy it? Will they sell it in their shops?
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Will its hide be hurt by darts, or its head by a harpoon?
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If you lay a hand on it, you will never forget the battle that follows, and you will never try it again!
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"No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be thrown down.
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And since no one dares to disturb the crocodile, who would dare to stand up to me?
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Who will confront me and remain safe? Everything under heaven is mine.
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"I want to emphasize the tremendous strength in the crocodile's limbs and throughout its enormous frame.
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Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?
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Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!
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The overlapping scales on its back make a shield.
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They are close together so no air can get between them.
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They lock together so nothing can penetrate them.
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"When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn.
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Fire and sparks leap from its mouth.
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Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a boiling pot on a fire of dry rushes.
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Yes, its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.
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"The tremendous strength in its neck strikes terror wherever it goes.
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Its flesh is hard and firm, not soft and fat.
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Its heart is as hard as rock, as hard as a millstone.
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When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror.
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No sword can stop it, nor spear nor dart nor pointed shaft.
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To the crocodile, iron is nothing but straw, and bronze is rotten wood.
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Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are as ineffective as straw.
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Clubs do no good, and it laughs at the swish of the javelins.
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Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. They tear up the ground as it drags through the mud.
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"The crocodile makes the water boil with its commotion. It churns the depths.
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The water glistens in its wake. One would think the sea had turned white.
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There is nothing else so fearless anywhere on earth.
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Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts."