KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 40:12–24
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Job 40:12
12Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
12Looke on euery one that is proud, and bring him low: and tread downe the wicked in their place.
Job 40:13
13Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
13Hide them in the dust together, and binde their faces in secret.
Job 40:14
14Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
14Then will I also confesse vnto thee, that thine owne right hand can saue thee.
Job 40:15
15¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
15¶ Beholde now ‖Behemoth which I made with thee, hee eateth grasse as an oxe.
- Or, the Elephant, as some think.
Job 40:16
16Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
16Loe now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauell of his belly.
Job 40:17
17He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
17‖Hee moueth his taile like a Cedar: the sinewes of his stones are wrapt together.
- Or, he setteth vp.
Job 40:18
18His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
18His bones are as strong pieces of brasse: his bones are like barres of iron.
Job 40:19
19He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
19Hee is the chiefe of the wayes of God: he that made him, can make his sword to approach vnto him.
Job 40:20
20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
20Surely the mountaines bring him foorth foode: where all the beasts of the field play.
Job 40:21
21He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
21He lieth vnder the shady trees in the couert of the reede, and fennes.
Job 40:22
22The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
22The shady trees couer him with their shaddow: the willowes of the brooke compasse him about.
Job 40:23
23Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
23Behold, †he drinketh vp a riuer, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw vp Iordan into his mouth.
- Heb. he oppresseth.
Job 40:24
24He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
24‖He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pearceth through snares.
- Or, will any take him in his sight? or bore his nose with a ginne?
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 40:12
To direct the eyes or attention; to behold, observe, expect, or take heed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Having an unduly high opinion of oneself; haughty or self-exalting.
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Not high; beneath in place, rank, amount, strength, or condition; also humble or brought down.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To step, walk, press, or trample with the feet.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
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A location, position, room, occasion, office, or passage, according to context.
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Job 40:13
To conceal or keep from sight or knowledge; to lie concealed. As a noun, an animal skin.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Fine, dry particles of earth; the ground or earth, often as an image of frailty, abasement, or death.
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In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To tie together, or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
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Job 40:14
To make confession; to disclose faults, or the state of the conscience.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Straight, correct, just, proper, or belonging to a lawful claim; also the opposite of left.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
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To rescue, preserve, deliver, or keep from loss or danger.
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Job 40:15
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
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The creature called behemoth in Job 40 and described in the surrounding passage; the KJV does not identify it with a particular modern species.
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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Eats; takes food into the mouth and consumes it.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Low green herbage growing from the ground; by extension, plants used for pasture.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
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Job 40:16
Power, force, firmness, ability, endurance, or that which gives support.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Strength, power, compulsion, effect, or an armed body, according to context.
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The center of the lower part of the abdomen, or the point where the umbilical cord passes out of the fetus.
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Job 40:17
The part of an animal which terminates its body behind.
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Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · Webster 1828
A large, fragrant evergreen tree valued for durable timber.
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Tendons or strong cords of the body; figuratively, images of strength or stiffness.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Pieces or masses of rock; or, as a verb, strikes with stones, according to context.
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Entwined or wound closely around or together.
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In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 40:18
Having strength, power, firmness, endurance, influence, or the ability to resist and prevail.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · Webster 1828
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Job 40:19
Principal, foremost, highest in rank or importance; also a leader.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
To come or draw near; a coming near.
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Job 40:20
Certainly, truly, firmly, or without doubt.
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Outward, onward, or away from a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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To make music, take part in sport or action, perform a part, or act in a stated manner.
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Job 40:21
Lies: reclines, rests, remains, or is situated; or speaks falsely, according to context.
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Abounding with shade or shades; overspread with shade.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
A shelter, hiding-place.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
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Job 40:22
Abounding with shade or shades; overspread with shade.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Shade from light; a dark outline; or a figure of protection, transience, or a coming reality, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The tree called a willow in the KJV, associated with water; the entry does not impose a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
To go all round or all over; Circumference, circuit.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
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Job 40:23
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
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To haste: to hurry, act quickly, or make speed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Something committed to a person’s care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
To pull, drag, bring, lead, take out, attract, or make a line, according to context.
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The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
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Job 40:24
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828
The projecting facial organ containing the nostrils, used for smell and breathing; the verse may describe, compare, pierce, ornament, or injure it.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Pierces; penetrates, passes through, or wounds deeply.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
From one side or end to another; by means of; throughout; or because of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Devices or stratagems used to catch or entangle; figuratively, causes of danger, sin, or ruin.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
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From verse 12
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Open the full verse study3I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
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Open the full verse study3And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
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Open the full verse study7The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
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Open the full verse study25That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
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Open the full verse study3If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
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Open the full verse study6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
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Open the full verse study11And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
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Open the full verse study20Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
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Open the full verse study25The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
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Open the full verse study12Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
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Open the full verse study5¶ And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
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Open the full verse study20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
From verse 13
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Open the full verse study10¶ Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.
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Open the full verse study8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
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Open the full verse study13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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Open the full verse study13But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
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Open the full verse study14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
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Open the full verse study44And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
From verse 14
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Open the full verse study4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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Open the full verse study29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
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Open the full verse study3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
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Open the full verse study6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
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Open the full verse study6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
From verse 15
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Open the full verse study24¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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Open the full verse study20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
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Open the full verse study14He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
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Open the full verse study8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
From verse 18
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Open the full verse study4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
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Open the full verse study12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
From verse 19
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Open the full verse study33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
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Open the full verse study1IN that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
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Open the full verse study13By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
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Open the full verse study24O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
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Open the full verse study12If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
From verse 20
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Open the full verse study14He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
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Open the full verse study26There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
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Open the full verse study15¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
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Open the full verse study8Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
9He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
From verse 21
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Open the full verse study6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
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Open the full verse study7And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
From verse 22
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Open the full verse study5He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
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Open the full verse study7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
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Open the full verse study40And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
From verse 23
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Open the full verse study10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
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Open the full verse study16¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
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Open the full verse study25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
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Open the full verse study15And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
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Open the full verse study8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
From verse 24
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Open the full verse study1CANST thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
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