Job 41:1
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
Job 41:2
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Job 41:3
Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
Job 41:4
Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
Job 41:5
Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
Job 41:6
Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
Job 41:7
Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
Job 41:8
If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
Job 41:9
Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
Job 41:10
No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
Job 41:11
Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
Job 41:12
I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
Job 41:13
Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
Job 41:14
Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
Job 41:15
His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
Job 41:16
One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
Job 41:17
They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
Job 41:18
His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
Job 41:19
Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
Job 41:20
Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
Job 41:21
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
Job 41:22
Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
Job 41:23
The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
Job 41:24
His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
Job 41:25
When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
Job 41:26
The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
Job 41:27
He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
Job 41:28
No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
Job 41:29
A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
Job 41:30
His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
Job 41:31
He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
Job 41:32
He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
Job 41:33
Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!
Job 41:34
He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”