Job 41:1-34 AMP

[1] “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord? [2] Can you put a rope [made] of rushes into his nose Or pierce his jaw through with a hook? [3] Will he make many supplications to you [begging to be spared]? Or will he speak soft words to you [to coax you to treat him kindly]? [4] Will he make a covenant or an arrangement with you? Will you take him for your servant forever? [5] Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him [and put him on a leash] for your maidens? [6] Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? [7] Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears? [8] Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle [with him]; you will not do such [an ill-advised thing] again! [9] Behold, his [assailant’s] hope and expectation [of defeating Leviathan] is false; Will not one be overwhelmed even at the sight of him? [10] No one is so fierce [and foolhardy] that he dares to stir up Leviathan; Who then is he who can stand before Me [or dares to contend with Me, the beast’s creator]? [11] Who has first given to Me that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine. [Who can have a claim against Me who made the unmastered beast?] [12] “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his orderly frame. [13] Who can penetrate or strip off his outer armor? Who can come to his jaws with a double bridle? [14] Who can open the doors (jaws) of his face? Around his [open jaws and] teeth there is terror. [15] His strong scales are his pride, Bound together as with a tight 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 and cannot be separated. [18] His sneezes flash forth light, And his eyes are like the [reddish] eyelids of the dawn. [19] Out of his mouth go burning torches, And sparks of fire leap out. [20] Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth As from a boiling pot and [as from] burning rushes. [21] His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth. [22] In Leviathan’s neck resides strength, And dismay and terror dance before him. [23] The folds of his flesh are joined together, Firm on him and immobile [when he moves]. [24] His heart is as hard as a stone, Indeed, as solid as a lower millstone. [25] When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; Because of the crashing they are bewildered. [26] The sword that reaches him cannot avail, Nor [does] the spear, the dart, or the javelin. [27] He considers iron as straw, Bronze as rotten wood. [28] The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones are treated as stubble by him. [29] Clubs [also] are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin. [30] His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery; He moves across and spreads out [grooves] like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks). [31] He makes the deep water boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a [foaming] pot of ointment. [32] Behind him he makes a shining wake; One would think the deep to be gray-haired [with foam]. [33] Upon earth there is nothing like him—no equal exists, A creature made without fear. [34] He looks on everything that is high [without terror]; He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”