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41 And now I want you to think about another great animal that I created, the crocodile.
You cannot catch crocodiles with fishhooks,
and you cannot fasten their jaws with rope!
2 You cannot hook their jaws to catch them
and then put cords through their noses to control them.
3 Crocodiles would certainly not plead with you to act mercifully toward them!
They would not use sweet talk to try to get you not to harm them!
4 Crocodiles would certainly not make an agreement to work for you
as your slaves for as long as they lived!
5 You cannot turn them into pets, as people do with birds!
You cannot put a leash around their necks so that the young women in your household can take them for walks!
6 People who work together to catch fish would never catch one and then decide what share belonged to each of them.
They would never get the chance to cut a crocodile into pieces and then sell its meat!
7 People cannot throw harpoons hard enough at crocodiles to pierce their hides!
People cannot throw fishing spears into their heads!
8 If you try to fight with a crocodile, it will give you a battle that you will never forget!
You will never try to do that again!
9 It is useless even to hope to subdue a crocodile.
Just the sight of one is almost enough to make a person become so afraid that he falls down.
10 No one is so foolhardy that he would wake up a crocodile that was sleeping. The crocodile would angrily attack him.
Since that is true, it is even more foolhardy to challenge me, as you have done.
11 Even if people are righteous, they have not done anything for me
that obligates me to make only good things happen to them.
Everything in the created world belongs to me, so no one can give me anything that I have to repay.
12 And now I want to speak to you further.
No one would wake up a sleeping crocodile, but you said that you wanted to wake up the sea monster.
That monster is like a giant crocodile that lives in the ocean.
It has agile legs and great strength and a graceful shape.
13 It has a tough hide that no one can strip off.
It has powerful jaws.
14 Those jaws have terrible teeth in them!
No one can pry them open when they are closed, and no one can release them when they bite onto something.
15 It has rows of scales on its back
with no gaps between them.
16 Those scales are so close together
that is seems as if not even air can get between them.
17 Those scales join very closely to each other
and they do not pull apart.
18 When it makes a loud sound, fire comes out of its mouth as well as noise.
It has bright, scary eyes that seem to glow with fire.
19 When it breathes,
it shoots out flames and fiery sparks.
20 Smoke pours out of its nostrils
the way steam pours out of a pot of boiling water over a hot fire.
21 Flames shoot out from its mouth,
so when it breathes on wood, the wood catches fire.
22 Its neck is very strong.
Wherever it goes, it makes people very afraid.
23 It does not have a soft belly as other animals do.
Scales wrap around its belly and hold it tightly to its body.
24 It does not feel any compassion,
any more than a stone would feel compassion
or the lower millstone on which people grind grain would feel compassion.
25 When it rises up out of the ocean,
the bravest people become terrified.
When sailors see it churning up the water,
they sail away as fast as they can.
26 People cannot injure it with swords.
They cannot injure it with spears, arrows, or other weapons that have sharp points, either.
27 An iron weapon could not hurt it any more than straw could.
A bronze weapon could not hurt it any more than a weapon made of rotten wood.
28 Shooting arrows at it does not cause it to flee.
Hurling stones at it from a sling is like hurling bits of chaff at it.
29 A club that someone might use against it would not hurt it any more than chaff would.
It can ignore any spear that someone might throw at it.
30 Scales as sharp as broken pieces of pottery cover its belly.
When it drags itself through the mud,
these scales tear up the ground.
31 As it swims through the deep water of the ocean,
it churns it into foam,
as if it were boiling water or ointment that someone was stirring.
32 As it swims through the water, it creates a glistening wake.
The churning water is like white hair on top of the deep sea.
33 There is nothing in the world like it.
I created it in such a way that it would not be afraid of anything.
34 Nothing else scares it, no matter how powerful that thing may be.
It is greater than the greatest of other creatures.”
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