41:1 Eternal One: Now let us not stop here. What of Leviathan? Can you haul it in on the end of a hook or strap down its tongue with your line?
41:2 Will you subdue it with a fragile reed through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
41:3 Do you imagine it will beg you endlessly for mercy or lower its voice to a whisper when speaking to you?
41:4 Will it strike a deal with you and enter into your service as a lifelong slave?
41:5 Will you play with it as you would a pet bird or put it on a leash for your girls?
41:6 Will traders haggle over its price and others seek to divide it up among the merchants?
41:7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
41:8 If you are able to lay a hand on it, You will remember the struggle all of your days, and you will never do it again.
41:9 Now look, any expectation you could subdue it will be shattered. Just the sight of it is enough to overpower you.
41:10 No one is fierce enough to dare disturb it. So is there anyone in all the earth who dares to stand up to Me?
41:11 Who could ever confront Me and force Me to repay him? Everything and everyone under heaven is Mine!
41:12 I will not be silent regarding Leviathan’s powerful limbs, its enormous strength, or its beautiful form.
41:13 Who can reveal what is under its outer armor covering or penetrate down through its double coat of mail?
41:14 Who can pry open its enormous jaws? Remember: its teeth are a terror from every angle.
41:15 Its back is covered with rows of shields that overlap and shut with a tight seal—
41:16 One against another, so close that no wind passes between them.
41:17 They are joined to one another, inseparably locked.
41:18 When it sneezes, light flashes from its nostrils; its eyes are like the rays of the morning sun.
41:19 Fire streams from its mouth as fiery sparks fly outward.
41:20 Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot or a brush fire.
41:21 Its searing breath sets coals ablaze; its flaming tongue darts from its mouth.
41:22 Leviathan’s neck bristles with raw power; terror dances before him.
41:23 The creases in its flesh fuse together: firm, fixed, immovable.
41:24 Its heart is rock hard, as hard as a lower millstone, impervious to grinding.
41:25 When the beast rises up and moves near, the mighty ones shudder in fear; when it crashes down, they retreat.
41:26 The sword that reaches it may strike but to no effect, so, too, the spear, the dart, and the lance.
41:27 For it treats iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
41:28 The arrow cannot force its retreat, and the stone from the sling shatters on impact.
41:29 A club is no more dangerous to it than a piece of straw; it taunts and laughs at the rattling lance.
41:30 Its underbelly is as sharp as broken pottery shards; it easily dredges a channel in the mud behind it.
41:31 It brings the deep to a rolling boil like a pot over a hot fire; in its course it stirs the sea like a pot of ointment.
41:32 Behind it, the wake is bright and shining, as if the sea has long white hair.
41:33 Nothing on earth is its equal, this creature fashioned without fear.
41:34 It looks upon all the high and mighty— this king over the children of pride.
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