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Psalms 88:10
Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
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Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
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Ezekiel 29:3-5
speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God:“ Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says,‘ My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales; and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams, with all the fish of your streams that stick to your scales.And I will cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall on the open field, and not be brought together or gathered. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I give you as food.
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Job 41:1-34
“ Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?Lay your hands on him; remember the battle— you will not do it again!Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him.No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.“ I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.One is so near to another that no air can come between them.They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable.His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.The arrow cannot make him flee; for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired.On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.”
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Psalms 104:25-26
Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.
