1Can you draw out the leviathan with a hook, or hold down his tongue with a cord? 2Can you put a reed rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw with a thorn? 3Will he multiply pleas for help to you? Will he speak soft words to you? 4Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him for a servant for ever? 5Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens? 6Shall [your] companions bargain over him? Shall they divide him among the merchants? 7Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fishing spears? 8Lay your hand on him, think of the battle; you will never do it again. 9Behold, his hope has been made false; will not one be cast down at the sight of him? 10None [is so] fierce as to dare to stir him up; who then [is] able to stand before Me? 11Who has gone before Me that I should repay? All that [is] the heavens is Mine. 12I will not keep silent [concerning] his limbs, or [his] mighty strength, or the grace of his frame. 13Who can take off the surface of his skin; who can come [to him] with his double bridle? 14Who can open the doors to his face? Terror [is] round about his teeth. 15The rows of shields [are] his pride, shut up with a close seal; 16one is so near to another that no air can come between them; 17they are joined one to another, they clasp each other so that they can not be separated. 18His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the dawn. 19Out of his mouth go burning torches, sparks of fire leap out. 20Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as [out] of a boiling pot [fired] by reeds. 21His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. 22In his neck remains strength, and terror dances before him. 23The folds of his flesh are joined together, cast firm on him; he cannot be moved. 24His heart is cast hard as a stone, even cast hard as a piece of a riding millstone. 25The mighty are afraid from his rising; they are beside themselves from the crashing. 26The sword overtakes him, [but] will not hold firm. The spear, the dart, and the javelin [also]. 27He counts iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood. 28An arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones are turned by him into stubble. 29Darts are counted as straw; he laughs at the shaking of a javelin. 30Points of potsherds [are] under him; he spreads sharp pointed [marks] on the mire. 31He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. 32He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep [to be] gray-headed. 33On earth there is nothing like him, one made without fear. 34He beholds all high [things]; he [is] a king over all the sons of pride.