Bible verses about "crocodile" | Leeser

¹⁴ Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, and gavest them as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

^{1 (40:25)} Canst thou draw out the crocodile with a fishhook? or cause his tongue to sink into the batted rope? ^{2 (40:26)} Canst thou put a reed through his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? ^{3 (40:27)} Will he address many supplications unto thee? or will he speak submissively unto thee? ^{4 (40:28)} Will he make a covenant with thee? that thou couldst take him as a servant for ever? ^{5 (40:29)} Canst thou play with him as with a bird? and tie him up for thy maidens? ^{6 (40:30)} Can companions waylay him? can they divide him among merchants? ^{7 (40:31)} Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? and pierce with a fish-spear his head? ^{8 (40:32)} Lay thy hand upon him; think of the battle: thou wilt never do it again. ^{9 (41:1)} Behold, his expectation was deceived: even at his mere sight is he cast down. ^{10 (41:2)} None is so daring that he would stir him up: and who is there that will stand up before me? ^{11 (41:3)} Who hath shown me favor, that I should repay him! whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.— ^{12 (41:4)} I will not conceal the account of his limbs, nor the relation of his might, nor the grace of his proportion. ^{13 (41:5)} Who hath ever laid open the front of his garment? or who can penetrate into his double row of teeth? ^{14 (41:6)} Who hath opened the doors of his face? all round about his teeth abideth terror. ^{15 (41:7)} What pride is there in his strong shields; he is locked up as with a close seal. ^{16 (41:8)} One is joined to another; and no breath can come between them. ^{17 (41:9)} They are fitted closely one to another: they are interlocked, that they cannot be severed. ^{18 (41:10)} From his sneezing there beameth forth a light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning-dawn. ^{19 (41:11)} Out of his mouth issue burning torches, sparks of fire escape therefrom. ^{20 (41:12)} Out of his nostrils cometh forth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. ^{21 (41:13)} His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh out of his mouth. ^{22 (41:14)} In his neck abideth strength, and before him danceth terror joyfully. ^{23 (41:15)} The flakes of his flesh are fitted closely together: they are as molten metal on him, immovable. ^{24 (41:16)} His heart is firm like a stone: yea, as firm as the nether millstone. ^{25 (41:17)} At his lifting himself up the mighty are terrified: the waves also are lessened. ^{26 (41:18)} If one overtake him with the sword, it cannot hold; nor the spear, the dart, and armor. ^{27 (41:19)} He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. ^{28 (41:20)} The child of the bow cannot make him flee: into stubble are slingstones changed unto him. ^{29 (41:21)} Clubs are esteemed as stubble, and he laugheth at the whirring of the lance. ^{30 (41:22)} Beneath him are sharp-pointed potsherds, he spreadeth out, as it were, a threshing-roller upon the mire. ^{31 (41:23)} He causeth the deep to boil like a pot: he rendereth the sea like an apothecary’s mixture. ^{32 (41:24)} Behind him he causeth his pathway to shine, so that men esteem the deep to be hoary. ^{33 (41:25)} There is none upon earth that ruleth over him, who is made to be without dread. ^{34 (41:26)} He looketh upon all that is high: he is the king over all the ravenous beasts.

¹ On that day will the Lord punish with his heavy and great and strong sword leviathan the flying serpent, and leviathan the crooked servant; and he will slay the crocodile that is in the sea.