^{1 1} “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or² ⌞can you tie down its mouth with a cord⌟?³

1. Job 41:1–34 in the English Bible is 40:25–41:26 in the Hebrew Bible
2. Hebrew “And”
3. Literally “with a cord can you press down its tongue”

² Can you put a rope in its nose? Or¹ can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?

1. Hebrew “And”

³ Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you?

⁴ Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?

⁵ Will you play with it as with birds and put it on a leash for your girls?

⁶ Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen?

⁷ Can you fill its kin with harpoons or¹ its head with fish spears?

1. Hebrew “and”

⁸ Lay your hands on it; think about the battle—you will not do it again!

⁹ “Look, ⌞the hope of capturing it⌟¹ is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?

1. Literally “its hope”

¹⁰ Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who then is he who would stand ⌞before it⌟?¹

1. Or “Who is he thenwho could stand before me?”; literally “to the face of me”

¹¹ Who has come to confront me, that¹ I should repay him? Under all the heavens, ⌞it belongs to me⌟.²

1. Hebrew “and”
2. Literally “to me”

¹² “I will not keep quiet concerning its limbs or¹ concerning the extent of its might and the gracefulness of its frame.

1. Hebrew “and”

¹³ Who can strip off ⌞its outer covering⌟?¹ Who can penetrate its double harness?

1. Literally “the surface of its garment”

¹⁴ Who can open the doors of its face? Its teeth all around are fearsome.

¹⁵ Its back¹ has scales of shields; it is shut up closely as with a seal.

1. LXX; or “pride”

¹⁶ They are close ⌞to one another⌟—¹ even² the air cannot come between them.

1. Literally “one to one”
2. Hebrew “and”

¹⁷ They are joined ⌞one to another⌟;¹ they cling together and cannot be separated.

1. Literally “a man to his brother”

¹⁸ “Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes are ⌞red like dawn⌟.¹

1. Literally “like eyelids of dawn”

¹⁹ Torches go from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.

²⁰ Smoke comes from its nostrils as from a kettle boiling and burning bulrushes.

²¹ Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth.

²² “Strength abides in its neck, and dismay¹ dances ⌞before it⌟.²

1. Or “strength”
2. Literally “to the face of him/it”

²³ Its flesh’s folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it—it will not be moved.

²⁴ Its heart is cast as stone; yes,¹ it is cast as the lower millstone.

1. Hebrew “and”

²⁵ ⌞When it raises itself⌟,¹ the mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.

1. Literally “From his/its rising up”

²⁶ Reaching it with the sword does not avail, nor with the spear, the dart, or¹ the javelin.

1. Hebrew “and”

²⁷ It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

²⁸ ⌞An arrow⌟¹ will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.

1. Literally “A son of a bow”

²⁹ Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at the short sword’s rattle.

³⁰ “Its underparts are shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud like a threshing sledge.

³¹ It makes the deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

³² Behind it, ⌞it leaves a glistening wake⌟;¹ one would think that the deep has gray hair.

1. Literally “it lights up the path”

³³ “⌞On the ground it has no equal⌟¹— a² creature without fear.

1. Literally “There is not on the ground its likeness”
2. Hebrew “the”

³⁴ It observes all the lofty; it is king ⌞over all that are proud⌟.”¹

1. Literally “over all sons of pride”