Job 41:1-24

41¹ Or can you pull in the sea beast, Leviathan, with a fly rod and stuff him in your creel? ² Can you lasso him with a rope, or snag him with an anchor? ³ Will he beg you over and over for mercy, or flatter you with flowery speech? ⁴ Will he apply for a job with you to run errands and serve you the rest of your life? ⁵ Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish? Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children? ⁶ Will you put him on display in the market and have shoppers haggle over the price? ⁷ Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion, or drive harpoons into his huge head? ⁸ If you so much as lay a hand on him, you won't live to tell the story. ⁹ What hope would you have with such a creature? Why, one look at him would do you in! ¹⁰ If you can't hold your own against his glowering visage, how, then, do you expect to stand up to me?

¹¹ Who could confront me and get by with it? I'm in charge of all this - I run this universe! ¹² "But I've more to say about Leviathan, the sea beast, his enormous bulk, his beautiful shape. ¹³ Who would even dream of piercing that tough skin or putting those jaws into bit and bridle? ¹⁴ And who would dare knock at the door of his mouth filled with row upon row of fierce teeth? ¹⁵ His pride is invincible; nothing can make a dent in that pride. ¹⁶ Nothing can get through that proud skin - impervious to weapons and weather, ¹⁷ The thickest and toughest of hides, impenetrable! ¹⁸ "He snorts and the world lights up with fire, he blinks and the dawn breaks. ¹⁹ Comets pour out of his mouth, fireworks arc and branch. ²⁰ Smoke erupts from his nostrils like steam from a boiling pot. ²¹ He blows and fires blaze; flames of fire stream from his mouth. ²² All muscle he is - sheer and seamless muscle. To meet him is to dance with death. ²³ Sinewy and lithe, there's not a soft spot in his entire body - ²⁴ As tough inside as out, rock-hard, invulnerable.