✧“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope? ✧2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? ✧3Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly? ✧4Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life? ✧5Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens? ✧6Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants? ✧7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? ✧8If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it! ✧9Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming? ✧10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me? ✧11Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine. ✧12I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form. ✧13Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle? ✧14Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth? ✧15His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together. ✧16One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them. ✧17They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated. ✧18His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn. ✧19Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth! ✧20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. ✧21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth. ✧22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him. ✧23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable. ✧24His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone! ✧25When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing. ✧26The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow. ✧27He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. ✧28No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him. ✧29A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance. ✧30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge. ✧31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment. ✧32He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair! ✧33Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear! ✧34He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”