Job 41

^{Job 41:1} “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

^{Job 41:2} Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

^{Job 41:3} Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

^{Job 41:4} Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

^{Job 41:5} Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

^{Job 41:6} Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

^{Job 41:7} Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

^{Job 41:8} If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

^{Job 41:9} Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

^{Job 41:10} No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

^{Job 41:11} Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

^{Job 41:12} I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

^{Job 41:13} Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

^{Job 41:14} Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

^{Job 41:15} His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

^{Job 41:16} One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

^{Job 41:17} They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

^{Job 41:18} His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

^{Job 41:19} Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

^{Job 41:20} Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

^{Job 41:21} His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

^{Job 41:22} Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

^{Job 41:23} The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

^{Job 41:24} His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

^{Job 41:25} When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

^{Job 41:26} The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

^{Job 41:27} He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

^{Job 41:28} No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

^{Job 41:29} A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

^{Job 41:30} His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

^{Job 41:31} He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

^{Job 41:32} He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

^{Job 41:33} Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!

^{Job 41:34} He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”