Canst thou draw out the Crocodile with a fish-hook? Or, with a cord, canst thou fasten down his tongue?

Can you put a rope in its nose? Or can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?

Before his eyes, shall he be caught? With a hook, can one pierce his nose?

Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with fish-spears his head?

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you: and the fish of the sea shall declare unto you.