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Job 41 (KJV)

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Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

Job 41:1–10 · King James Version, 1611

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The identical test, posed and failed: the world-encircling sea-serpent hooked from a small boat, drawn up just far enough for a face-to-face look, and then lost. In both texts the climax is not combat but the unbearable sight · the gaze exchanged at the gunwale · after which the serpent returns to the deep untaken and intact. Job frames it as a rhetorical impossibility; the Edda narrates the one attempt and even its narrator concedes 'the Midgard-serpent still lives and lies in the ocean.'

'Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?... Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more... shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?' (Job 41:1, 8-9) · the sea-serpent posed as a fishing problem that no man can complete.

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