• Can You Draw Out Leviathan?

  • 1 “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down its tongue with a cord?
  • 2 “Can you put a rope in its nose Or pierce its jaw with a hook?
  • 3 “Will it make many supplications to you, Or will he speak to you soft words?
  • 4 “Will it cut a covenant with you? Will you take it for a slave forever?
  • 5 “Will you play with it as with a bird, Or will you bind it for your young women?
  • 6 “Will the traders bargain over it? Will they divide it among the merchants?
  • 7 “Can you fill its skin with harpoons, Or its head with fishing spears?
  • 8 “Place your hand on it; Remember the battle; you will not do that again!
  • 9 “Behold, his expectation is a lie; Will he be laid low even at the sight of it?
  • 10 “No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse it; Who then is he that can stand before Me?
  • 11 “Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.
  • 12 “I will not keep silence concerning its limbs, Or its mighty strength or its graceful frame.
  • 13 “Who can strip off its outer armor? Who can come with its doubled bridle?
  • 14 “Who can open the doors of its face? Around its teeth there is dreadful terror.
  • 15 “Its strong scales are its pride, Shut up as with a tight seal.
  • 16 “One is so near to another That no air can come between them.
  • 17 “They cling one to another; They are interlocked and cannot be separated.
  • 18 “Its sneezes flash forth light, And its eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
  • 19 “Out of its mouth go burning torches; Sparks of fire leap forth.
  • 20 “Out of its nostrils smoke goes forth As from a boiling pot and burning reeds.
  • 21 “Its breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from its mouth.
  • 22 “In its neck lodges strength, And dismay leaps before it.
  • 23 “The folds of its flesh cling together, Hardened upon it and is not shaken.
  • 24 “Its heart is as hard as a stone, Even as hard as a lower millstone.
  • 25 “When it raises itself up, the mighty fear, Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
  • 26 “The sword that reaches it cannot avail, Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
  • 27 “It regards iron as straw, Bronze as rotten wood.
  • 28 “The arrow cannot make it flee; Slingstones are turned into stubble for it.
  • 29 “Clubs are regarded as stubble; It laughs at the rattling of the javelin.
  • 30 “Its underparts are like sharp potsherds; It spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.
  • 31 “It makes the depths boil like a pot; It makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
  • 32 “Behind it, it makes a wake to shine; One would think the deep to be gray-haired.
  • 33 “There is nothing upon the dust like it, One made without terror.
  • 34 “It looks on everything that is high; It is king over all the sons of pride.”