Job 41:1-24

41¹ "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.