Job 41

¹ “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook
or press down his tongue with a cord?

²Can you put a rope in his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?

³Will he make many pleas to you?
Will he speak to you soft words?

⁴Will he make a covenant with you
to take him for your servant forever?

⁵Will you play with him as with a bird,
or will you put him on a leash for your girls?

⁶Will traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?

⁷Can you fill his skin with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?

⁸Lay your hands on him;
remember the battle—you will not do it again!

⁹ Behold, the hope of a man is false;
he is laid low even at the sight of him.

¹⁰No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.
Who then is he who can stand before me?

¹¹ Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

¹²“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.

¹³Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who would come near him with a bridle?

¹⁴Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth is terror.

¹⁵His back is made of rows of shields,
shut up closely as with a seal.

¹⁶One is so near to another
that no air can come between them.

¹⁷They are joined one to another;
they clasp each other and cannot be separated.

¹⁸His sneezings flash forth light,
and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

¹⁹Out of his mouth go flaming torches;
sparks of fire leap forth.

²⁰Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke,
as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

²¹His breath kindles coals,
and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

²²In his neck abides strength,
and terror dances before him.

²³The folds of his flesh stick together,
firmly cast on him and immovable.

²⁴His heart is hard as a stone,
hard as the lower millstone.

²⁵When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;
at the crashing they are beside themselves.

²⁶Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,
nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

²⁷He counts iron as straw,
and bronze as rotten wood.

²⁸The arrow cannot make him flee;
for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.

²⁹Clubs are counted as stubble;
he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

³⁰His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

³¹He makes the deep boil like a pot;
he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

³²Behind him he leaves a shining wake;
one would think the deep to be white-haired.

³³ On earth there is not his like,
a creature without fear.

³⁴He sees everything that is high;
he is king over all the sons of pride.”

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