41:1 ‘Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish-hook, or press down its tongue with a cord?
41:2 Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?
41:3 Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you?
41:4 Will it make a covenant with you to be taken as your servant for ever?
41:5 Will you play with it as with a bird, or will you put it on a leash for your girls?
41:6 Will traders bargain over it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
41:7 Can you fill its skin with harpoons, or its head with fishing-spears?
41:8 Lay hands on it; think of the battle; you will not do it again!
41:9 Any hope of capturing it will be disappointed; were not even the gods overwhelmed at the sight of it?
41:10 No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up. Who can stand before it?
41:11 Who can confront it and be safe? —under the whole heaven, who?
41:12 ‘I will not keep silence concerning its limbs, or its mighty strength, or its splendid frame.
41:13 Who can strip off its outer garment? Who can penetrate its double coat of mail?
41:14 Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth.
41:15 Its back is made of shields in rows, shut up closely as with a seal.
41:16 One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
41:17 They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
41:18 Its sneezes flash forth light, and its eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
41:19 From its mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap out.
41:20 Out of its nostrils comes smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
41:21 Its breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of its mouth.
41:22 In its neck abides strength, and terror dances before it.
41:23 The folds of its flesh cling together; it is firmly cast and immovable.
41:24 Its heart is as hard as stone, as hard as the lower millstone.
41:25 When it raises itself up the gods are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.
41:26 Though the sword reaches it, it does not avail, nor does the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
41:27 It counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
41:28 The arrow cannot make it flee; slingstones, for it, are turned to chaff.
41:29 Clubs are counted as chaff; it laughs at the rattle of javelins.
41:30 Its underparts are like sharp potsherds; it spreads itself like a threshing-sledge on the mire.
41:31 It makes the deep boil like a pot; it makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
41:32 It leaves a shining wake behind it; one would think the deep to be white-haired.
41:33 On earth it has no equal, a creature without fear.
41:34 It surveys everything that is lofty; it is king over all that are proud.’
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