Job 41:1-34 - The Lord Continues: Can You Conquer Leviathan, Job?

¹ "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}? ² Can you put a rope in its nose? Or can you pierce its jawbone with a hook? ³ Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you? ⁴ Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever? ⁵ Will you play with it as [with] birds and put it on a leash for your girls? ⁶ Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen? ⁷ Can you fill its kin with harpoons or its head with fish spears? ⁸ Lay your hands on it; think about [the] battle--you will not do [it] again! ⁹ "Look, {the hope of capturing it} is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight? ¹⁰ [Is] it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who [then] [is] he [who] would stand {before it}? ¹¹ Who has come to confront me, that I should repay [him]? Under all the heavens, {it belongs to me}.

¹² "I will not keep quiet [concerning] its limbs or concerning [the] extent of its might and [the] gracefulness of its frame. ¹³ Who can strip off {its outer covering}? Who can penetrate its double harness? ¹⁴ Who can open [the] doors of its face? Its teeth all around [are] fearsome. ¹⁵ Its back [has] scales of shields; it is shut up closely [as with] a seal. ¹⁶ They are close {to one another}-- even [the] air cannot come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined {one to another}; they cling together and cannot be separated. ¹⁸ "Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes [are] {red like dawn}. ¹⁹ Torches go from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. ²⁰ Smoke comes from its nostrils as [from] a kettle boiling and [burning] bulrushes. ²¹ Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth. ²² "Strength abides in its neck, and dismay dances {before it}. ²³ Its flesh's folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it--it will not be moved. ²⁴ Its heart is cast as stone; yes, it is cast as [the] lower millstone. ²⁵ {When it raises itself}, [the] mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing. ²⁶ Reaching it [with the] sword does not avail, [nor] [with the] spear, [the] dart, or [the] javelin. ²⁷ It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood. ²⁸ {An arrow} will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it. ²⁹ Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at [the] short sword's rattle. ³⁰ "Its underparts [are] shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud [like] a threshing sledge. ³¹ It makes [the] deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes [the] sea like a pot of ointment. ³² Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair. ³³ "{On the ground it has no equal}-- a creature without fear. ³⁴ It observes all [the] lofty; it [is] king {over all that are proud}."