1Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook?
2Canst thou put a rope into his nose?
3Will he make many supplications unto thee?
4Will he make a covenant with thee,
5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird?
6Will the bands [of fishermen] make traffic of him?
7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons,
8Lay thy hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no more.
9Behold, the hope of him is in vain:
10None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me?
11Who hath first given unto me, that I should repay him?
12I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
13Who can strip off his outer garment?
14Who can open the doors of his face?
15[His] strong scales are [his] pride,
16One is so near to another,
17They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they cannot be sundered.
18His sneezings flash forth light,
19Out of his mouth go burning torches,
20Out of his nostrils a smoke goeth,
21His breath kindleth coals,
22In his neck abideth strength,
23The flakes of his flesh are joined together:
24His heart is as firm as a stone; Yea, firm as the nether millstone.
25When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid:
26If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
27He counteth iron as straw,
28The arrow cannot make him flee:
29Clubs are counted as stubble:
30His underparts are [like] sharp potsherds:
31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot:
32He maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be grayheaded.
33Upon earth there is not his like,
34He beholdeth everything that is high: