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41 (A)Can you catch Leviathan[a] with a fishhook
    or tie his tongue down with a rope?

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  1. Job 41:1 See 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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  1. Job 41:1 In Hebrew texts 41:1-8 is numbered 40:25-32, and 41:9-34 is numbered 41:1-26.

26 (A)The ships sail on it, and in it plays Leviathan,
    that sea monster which you made.[a]

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  1. Psalm 104:26 in it plays … made; or Leviathan is there, that sea monster you made to amuse you.

26 There the ships(A) go to and fro,
    and Leviathan,(B) which you formed to frolic(C) there.(D)

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27 (A)On that day the Lord will use his powerful and deadly sword to punish Leviathan, that wriggling, twisting dragon, and to kill the monster[a] that lives in the sea.

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  1. Isaiah 27:1 Legendary monsters which were symbols of the nations oppressing Israel.

Deliverance of Israel

27 In that day,(A)

the Lord will punish with his sword(B)
    his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan(C) the gliding serpent,(D)
    Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster(E) of the sea.

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