Job 41

¹Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

²Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?

³Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

⁴Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

⁵Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

⁶Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

⁷Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?

⁸Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

⁹Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!

¹⁰He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

¹¹Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

¹²I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

¹³Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

¹⁴Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.