Job 41:1-22

41¹ "Can you draw out Levi'athan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord? ² Can you put a rope in his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook? ³ Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak to you soft words? ⁴ Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant for ever? ⁵ Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on leash for your maidens? ⁶ Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? ⁷ Can you fill his skin with harpoons, or his head with fishing spears? ⁸ Lay hands on him; think of the battle; you will not do it again! ⁹ Behold, the hope of a man is disappointed; he is laid low even at the sight of him. ¹⁰ No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he that can stand before me?

¹¹ Who has given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. ¹² "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame. ¹³ Who can strip off his outer garment? Who can penetrate his double coat of mail? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror. ¹⁵ His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal. ¹⁶ One is so near to another that no air can come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated. ¹⁸ His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth. ²⁰ Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. ²¹ His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth. ²² In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.