# Job 41 
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1. “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? 
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2. Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? 
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3. Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? 
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4. Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? 
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5. Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? 
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6. Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? 
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7. Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? 
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8. Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again! 
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9. Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him. 
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10. No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? 
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11. Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. 
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12. “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame. 
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13. Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle? 
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14. Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. 
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15. His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal. 
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16. One is so near to another that no air can come between them. 
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17. They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated. 
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18. His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. 
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19. Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth. 
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20. Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. 
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21. His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth. 
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22. In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. 
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23. The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable. 
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24. His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone. 
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25. When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves. 
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26. Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin. 
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27. He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. 
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28. The arrow cannot make him flee; for him, sling stones are turned to stubble. 
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29. Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins. 
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30. His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire. 
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31. He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. 
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32. Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired. 
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33. On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. 
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34. He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.” 

(ESV)