Job 41:1-34 NLT

[1] "Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw? [2] Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike? [3] Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity? [4] Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life? [5] Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with? [6] Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops? [7] Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon? [8] If you lay a hand on it, you will certainly remember the battle that follows. You won't try that again! [9] No, it is useless to try to capture it. The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down. [10] And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to me? [11] Who has given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine. [12] "I want to emphasize Leviathan's limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form. [13] Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor? [14] Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible! [15] The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together. [16] They are so close together that no air can get between them. [17] Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated. [18] "When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn. [19] Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out. [20] Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes. [21] Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth. [22] "The tremendous strength in Leviathan's neck strikes terror wherever it goes. [23] Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated. [24] Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone. [25] When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror. [26] No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or javelin. [27] Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood. [28] Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass. [29] Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins. [30] Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud. [31] "Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment. [32] The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white. [33] Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless. [34] Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts."