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Job 41:23-34 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

23. Its rolls of fat are close together. They are firm and can't be moved.

24. Its chest is as hard as rock. It is as hard as a lower millstone.

25. When the leviathan rises up, even mighty people are terrified. They run away when it moves around wildly.

26. A sword that strikes it has no effect. Neither does a spear or dart or javelin.

27. It treats iron as if it were straw. It crushes bronze as if it were rotten wood.

28. Arrows do not make it run away. Stones that are thrown from slings are like straw hitting it.

29. A club seems like a piece of straw to it. It laughs when it hears a javelin rattling.

30. Its undersides are like broken pieces of pottery. It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing sled.

31. It makes the ocean churn like a boiling pot. It stirs up the sea like perfume someone is making.

32. It leaves a shiny trail behind it. You would think the ocean had white hair.

33. Nothing on earth is equal to the leviathan. That creature is not afraid of anything.

34. It looks down on proud people. It rules over all those who are proud."

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