Chapter 41
1 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
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2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
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3 Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
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4 Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
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5 Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
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6 Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
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7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
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8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
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9 Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
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10 No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
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11 Who has given to Me that I should repay him?1 Everything under heaven is Mine.
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- Cited in Romans 11:35
12 I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
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13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?1
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- Or Who can come within his double mail?
14 Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
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15 His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
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16 One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
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17 They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
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18 His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
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19 Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
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20 Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
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21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
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22 Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
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23 The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
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24 His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
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25 When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
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26 The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
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27 He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
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28 No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
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29 A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.1
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- Or javelin
30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
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31 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
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32 He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
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33 Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!
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34 He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”
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