1:
Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?
2:
Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?
3:
Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?
4:
Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?
5:
Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?
6:
Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?
7:
Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with his head?
8:
Lay thy hand upon him : remember the battle, and speak no more.
9:
Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down.
10:
I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel : for who can resist my countenance?
11:
Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
12:
I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.
13:
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
14:
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
15:
His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.
16:
One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them :
17:
They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.
18:
His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.
19:
Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.
20:
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.
21:
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
22:
In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face.
23:
The members of his flesh cleave one to another : he shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.
24:
His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith's anvil.
25:
When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves.
26:
When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
27:
For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28:
The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.
29:
As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
30:
The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
31:
He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.
32:
A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing old.
33:
There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one.
34:
He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children of pride.