Job 41:1-22

41¹ “Can you draw out Leviathan [1] with a fishhook,
or press down his tongue with a cord? ² Can you put a rope into his nose,
or pierce his jaw through with a hook? ³ Will he make many petitions to you,
or will he speak soft words to you? ⁴ Will he make a covenant with you,
that you should take him for a servant forever? ⁵ Will you play with him as with a bird?
Or will you bind him for your girls? ⁶ Will traders barter for him?
Will they part him among the merchants? ⁷ Can you fill his skin with barbed irons,
or his head with fish spears? ⁸ Lay your hand on him.
Remember the battle, and do so no more. ⁹ Behold, the hope of him is in vain.
Won’t 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 who can stand before me?

¹¹ Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Everything under the heavens 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?
Around his teeth is terror. ¹⁵ Strong scales are his pride,
shut up together 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 can’t be pulled apart. ¹⁸ His sneezing flashes out light.
His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning torches.
Sparks of fire leap forth. ²⁰ Out of his nostrils a smoke goes,
as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds. ²¹ His breath kindles coals.
A flame goes forth from his mouth. ²² There is strength in his neck.
Terror dances before him.