Job 41

¹“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

²Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

³Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

⁴Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

⁵Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

⁶Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

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

⁸If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

⁹Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

¹⁰No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

¹¹Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

¹²I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

¹³Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

¹⁴Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

¹⁵His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

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