Job 41:1-22

41¹ Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord? ² Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook? ³ Will he make many supplications unto thee? Or will he speak soft words unto thee? ⁴ Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever? ⁵ Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? ⁶ Will the bands [of fishermen] make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants? ⁷ Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears? ⁸ Lay thy hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no more. ⁹ Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him? ¹⁰ None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me?

¹¹ Who hath first given unto me, that I should repay him? [Whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine. ¹² I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. ¹³ Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror. ¹⁵ [His] strong scales are [his] pride, Shut up together [as with] a close seal. ¹⁶ One is so near to another, That no air can come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they cannot be sundered. ¹⁸ His sneezings flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning torches, And sparks of fire leap forth. ²⁰ Out of his nostrils a smoke goeth, As of a boiling pot and [burning] rushes. ²¹ His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from his mouth. ²² In his neck abideth strength, And terror danceth before him.