Job 41:1-24

41¹ "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down its tongue with a cord? ² Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? ³ Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you? ⁴ Will it make a covenant with you to be taken as your servant forever? ⁵ Will you play with it as with a bird, or will you put it on leash for your girls? ⁶ Will traders bargain over it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? ⁷ Can you fill its skin with harpoons, or its head with fishing spears? ⁸ Lay hands on it; think of the battle; you will not do it again! ⁹ Any hope of capturing it will be disappointed; were not even the gods overwhelmed at the sight of it? ¹⁰ No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up. Who can stand before it?

¹¹ Who can confront it and be safe? -under the whole heaven, who? ¹² "I will not keep silence concerning its limbs, or its mighty strength, or its splendid frame. ¹³ Who can strip off its outer garment? Who can penetrate its double coat of mail? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth. ¹⁵ Its back is made of shields in rows, shut up closely as with a seal. ¹⁶ One is so near to another that no air can come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated. ¹⁸ Its sneezes flash forth light, and its eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. ¹⁹ From its mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap out. ²⁰ Out of its nostrils comes smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. ²¹ Its breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of its mouth. ²² In its neck abides strength, and terror dances before it. ²³ The folds of its flesh cling together; it is firmly cast and immovable. ²⁴ Its heart is as hard as stone, as hard as the lower millstone.