28 Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(A) in your nose
    and my bit(B) in your mouth,
and I will make you return(C)
    by the way you came.’

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28 Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore (A)I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back
(B)By the way which you came.

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Can you put a cord through its nose(A)
    or pierce its jaw with a hook?(B)

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Can you (A)put a reed through his nose,
Or pierce his jaw with a [a]hook?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:2 thorn

Can you fill its hide with harpoons
    or its head with fishing spears?(A)

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Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?

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26 The sword that reaches it has no effect,
    nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.(A)

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26 Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail;
Nor does spear, dart, or javelin.

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29 Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence(A) has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(B) in your nose(C)
    and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
    by the way you came.(D)

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29 Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore (A)I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will (B)turn you back
By the way which you came.” ’

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