Job 41:1-34 ¶ Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook or with the cord which thou lettest down on his tongue?

EJ2000⁽ⁱ⁾ 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 slave 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 {Heb. shields} 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.