1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook,

or press down his tongue with a cord?

2 Can you put a rope into his nose,

or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

3 Will he make many petitions to you,

or will he speak soft words to you?

4 Will he make a covenant with you,

that you should take him for a servant forever?

5 Will you play with him as with a bird?

Or will you bind him for your girls?

6 Will traders barter for him?

Will they part him among the merchants?

7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons,

or his head with fish spears?

8 Lay your hand on him.

Remember the battle, and do so no more.

9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain.

Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?

10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up.

Who then is he who can stand before me?

11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?

Everything under the heavens is mine.

12 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,

nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

13 Who can strip off his outer garment?

Who will come within his jaws?

14 Who can open the doors of his face?

Around his teeth is terror.

15 Strong scales are his pride,

shut up together with a close seal.

16 One is so near to another,

that no air can come between them.

17 They are joined to one another.

They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.

18 His sneezing flashes out light.

His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

19 Out of his mouth go burning torches.

Sparks of fire leap out.

20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes,

as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

21 His breath kindles coals.

A flame goes out of his mouth.

22 There is strength in his neck.

Terror dances before him.

23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together.

They are firm on him.

They can’t be moved.

24 His heart is as firm as a stone,

yes, firm as the lower millstone.

25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid.

They retreat before his thrashing.

26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail;

nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

27 He counts iron as straw,

and bronze as rotten wood.

28 The arrow can’t make him flee.

Sling stones are like chaff to him.

29 Clubs are counted as stubble.

He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds,

leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot.

He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

32 He makes a path shine after him.

One would think the deep had white hair.

33 On earth there is not his equal,

that is made without fear.

34 He sees everything that is high.

He is king over all the sons of pride."

1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook or with the cord [which] thou lettest down on his tongue?

2 Canst thou put a hook into his nose or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft [words] unto thee?

4 Will he make a covenant with thee that thou shall take him for a servant for ever?

5 Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird, or wilt thou tie him up for thy maidens?

6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they part him among the merchants?

7 Canst thou cut his skin with knives or his head with a fish spear?

8 Lay thine hand upon him; thou shalt remember the battle and do no more.

9 Behold, your hope [regarding] him shall fail; for even at the sight of him they shall faint.

10 No one [is so] bold as to dare stir him up; who then shall be able to stand before me?

11 Who has preceded me, that I should repay [him]? All that is under the whole heaven is mine.

12 I will not conceal his lies, nor his might, nor the beauty of his order.

13 Who shall uncover the face of his garment? [Or] who shall come to him with a double bridle?

14 Who shall open the doors of his face? The orders of his teeth [are] terrible.

15 His scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal.

16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

17 They are joined one to another; they stick together, that they cannot be separated.

18 By his sneezings lights are lit, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning.

19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap out.

20 Out of his nostrils goes forth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or caldron.

21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

22 In his neck dwells strength, and before him the work is undone.

23 The failings of his flesh are joined together; [his flesh] is firm in him and does not move.

24 His heart is as firm as a stone; as hard as a piece of the lower [millstone].

25 Of his greatness, the mighty are afraid; by reason of breakings they remove sin from themselves.

26 When one catches up to him, no sword or spear or dart or coat of mail shall endure [against him].

27 He esteems iron as straw [and] bronze as rotten wood.

28 The arrow cannot make him flee; with him, slingstones are turned into stubble.

29 He counts any weapon as stubble; he laughs at the shaking of a spear.

30 Broken clay vessels [are] under him; he carves his imprint upon the mire.

31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

32 He makes the path shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary.

33 Upon earth there is not his like, who behaves without fear.

34 He despises all exalted [things]; he is king over all the sons of pride.: