1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook
2Can you put a cord through his nose
3Will he beg you for mercy
4Will he make a covenant with you
5Can you pet him like a bird
6Will traders barter for him
7Can you fill his hide with harpoons
8If you lay a hand on him,
9Surely hope of overcoming him is false.
10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan.
11Who has given to Me that I should repay him?41:11 Cited in Romans 11:35
12I cannot keep silent about his limbs,
13Who can strip off his outer coat?
14Who can open his jaws,
15His rows of scales are his pride,
16One scale is so near to another
17They are joined to one another;
18His snorting flashes with light,
19Firebrands stream from his mouth;
20Smoke billows from his nostrils
21His breath sets coals ablaze,
22Strength resides in his neck,
23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined;
24His chest is as hard as a rock,
25When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified;
26The sword that reaches him has no effect,
27He regards iron as straw
28No arrow can make him flee;
29A club is regarded as straw,
30His undersides are jagged potsherds,
31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron;
32He leaves a glistening wake behind him;
33Nothing on earth is his equal—
34He looks down on all the haughty;