Job.41.1
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
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"Or can you pull in the sea beast, Leviathan, with a fly rod and stuff him in your creel?
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"Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
Job.41.1
"Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?
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"Can you catch a crocodile with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?
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Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
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Can you lasso him with a rope, or snag him with an anchor?
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Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
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Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
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Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike?
Job.41.3
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
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Will he beg you over and over for mercy, or flatter you with flowery speech?
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Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?
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Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you?
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Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?
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Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
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Will he apply for a job with you to run errands and serve you the rest of your life?
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Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?
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Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever?
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Will it agree to work for you? Can you make it be your slave for life?
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Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
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Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish? Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children?
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Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
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Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you leash him for your maidens?
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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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Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
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Will you put him on display in the market and have shoppers haggle over the price?
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Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
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Will your companions make a banquet of him? Will they apportion him among the merchants?
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Will merchants try to buy it? Will they sell it in their shops?
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Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
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Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion, or drive harpoons into his huge head?
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Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
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Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears?
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Will its hide be hurt by darts, or its head by a harpoon?
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Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
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If you so much as lay a hand on him, you won't live to tell the story.
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If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
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Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle-- Never do it again!
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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!
Job.41.9
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Job.41.9
What hope would you have with such a creature? Why, one look at him would do you in!
Job.41.9
Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
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Indeed, any hope of overcoming him is false; Shall one not be overwhelmed at the sight of him?
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"No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be thrown down.
Job.41.10
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
Job.41.10
If you can't hold your own against his glowering visage, how, then, do you expect to stand up to me?
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No one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
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No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against Me?
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And since no one dares to disturb the crocodile, who would dare to stand up to me?
Job.41.11
Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
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Who could confront me and get by with it? I'm in charge of all this--I run this universe!
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Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
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Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
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Who will confront me and remain safe? Everything under heaven is mine.
Job.41.12
I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
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"But I've more to say about Leviathan, the sea beast, his enormous bulk, his beautiful shape.
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"I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.
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"I will not conceal his limbs, His mighty power, or his graceful proportions.
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"I want to emphasize the tremendous strength in the crocodile's limbs and throughout its enormous frame.
Job.41.13
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
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Who would even dream of piercing that tough skin or putting those jaws into bit and bridle?
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Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?
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Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?
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Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?
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Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
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And who would dare knock at the door of his mouth filled with row upon row of fierce teeth?
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Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
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Who can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all around?
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Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!
Job.41.15
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
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His pride is invincible; nothing can make a dent in that pride.
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His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
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His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as with a seal;
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The overlapping scales on its back make a shield.
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One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
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Nothing can get through that proud skin--impervious to weapons and weather,
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each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
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One is so near another That no air can come between them;
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They are close together so no air can get between them.
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They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
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The thickest and toughest of hides, impenetrable!
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They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
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They are joined one to another, They stick together and cannot be parted.
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They lock together so nothing can penetrate them.
Job.41.18
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
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"He snorts and the world lights up with fire, he blinks and the dawn breaks.
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His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
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His sneezings flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
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"When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn.
Job.41.19
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
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Comets pour out of his mouth, fireworks arc and branch.
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Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
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Out of his mouth go burning lights; Sparks of fire shoot out.
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Fire and sparks leap from its mouth.
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Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
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Smoke erupts from his nostrils like steam from a boiling pot.
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Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
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Smoke goes out of his nostrils, As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
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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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His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
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He blows and fires blaze; flames of fire stream from his mouth.
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His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
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His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes out of his mouth.
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Yes, its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.
Job.41.22
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
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All muscle he is--sheer and seamless muscle. To meet him is to dance with death.
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Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.
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Strength dwells in his neck, And sorrow dances before him.
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"The tremendous strength in its neck strikes terror wherever it goes.
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The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
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Sinewy and lithe, there's not a soft spot in his entire body--
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The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
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The folds of his flesh are joined together; They are firm on him and cannot be moved.
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Its flesh is hard and firm, not soft and fat.
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His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
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As tough inside as out, rock-hard, invulnerable.
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His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
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His heart is as hard as stone, Even as hard as the lower millstone.
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Its heart is as hard as rock, as hard as a millstone.
Job.41.25
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
Job.41.25
Even angels run for cover when he surfaces, cowering before his tail-thrashing turbulence.
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When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
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When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; Because of his crashings they are beside themselves.
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When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror.
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The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
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Javelins bounce harmlessly off his hide, harpoons ricochet wildly.
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The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
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Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; Nor does spear, dart, or javelin.
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No sword can stop it, nor spear nor dart nor pointed shaft.
Job.41.27
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
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Iron bars are so much straw to him, bronze weapons beneath notice.
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Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
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He regards iron as straw, And bronze as rotten wood.
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To the crocodile, iron is nothing but straw, and bronze is rotten wood.
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The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
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Arrows don't even make him blink; bullets make no more impression than raindrops.
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Arrows do not make him flee; slingstones are like chaff to him.
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The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones become like stubble to him.
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Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are as ineffective as straw.
Job.41.29
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
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A battle ax is nothing but a splinter of kindling; he treats a brandished harpoon as a joke.
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A club seems to him but a piece of straw; he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
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Darts are regarded as straw; He laughs at the threat of javelins.
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Clubs do no good, and it laughs at the swish of the javelins.
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Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
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His belly is armor-plated, inexorable--unstoppable as a barge.
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His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
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His undersides are like sharp potsherds; He spreads pointed marks in the mire.
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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.
Job.41.31
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
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He roils deep ocean the way you'd boil water, he whips the sea like you'd whip an egg into batter.
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He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
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He makes the deep boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
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"The crocodile makes the water boil with its commotion. It churns the depths.
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He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
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With a luminous trail stretching out behind him, you might think Ocean had grown a gray beard!
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Behind him he leaves a glistening wake; one would think the deep had white hair.
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He leaves a shining wake behind him; One would think the deep had white hair.
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The water glistens in its wake. One would think the sea had turned white.
Job.41.33
Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
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There's nothing on this earth quite like him, not an ounce of fear in that creature!
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Nothing on earth is his equal- a creature without fear.
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On earth there is nothing like him, Which is made without fear.
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There is nothing else so fearless anywhere on earth.
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He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
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He surveys all the high and mighty--king of the ocean, king of the deep!" Job Worships God I Babbled On About Things Far Beyond Me
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He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud."
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He beholds every high thing; He is king over all the children of pride."
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Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts."
