✧Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord? ✧2Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook? ✧3Will he make many supplications unto thee? Or will he speak soft words unto thee? ✧4Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever? ✧5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? ✧6Will the bands [of fishermen] make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants? ✧7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears? ✧8Lay thy hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no more. ✧9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him? ✧10None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me? ✧11Who hath first given unto me, that I should repay him? [Whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine. ✧12I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. ✧13Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws? ✧14Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror. ✧15[His] strong scales are [his] pride, Shut up together [as with] a close seal. ✧16One is so near to another, That no air can come between them. ✧17They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they cannot be sundered. ✧18His sneezings flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. ✧19Out of his mouth go burning torches, And sparks of fire leap forth. ✧20Out of his nostrils a smoke goeth, As of a boiling pot and [burning] rushes. ✧21His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from his mouth. ✧22In his neck abideth strength, And terror danceth before him. ✧23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm upon him; they cannot be moved. ✧24His heart is as firm as a stone; Yea, firm as the nether millstone. ✧25When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: By reason of consternation they are beside themselves. ✧26If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. ✧27He counteth iron as straw, [And] brass as rotten wood. ✧28The arrow cannot make him flee: Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble. ✧29Clubs are counted as stubble: He laugheth at the rushing of the javelin. ✧30His underparts are [like] sharp potsherds: He spreadeth [as it were] a threshing-wain upon the mire. ✧31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. ✧32He maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary. ✧33Upon earth there is not his like, That is made without fear. ✧34He beholdeth everything that is high: He is king over all the sons of pride.