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Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down? (41:1)

Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? (41:2)

Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft [words] unto thee? (41:3)

Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? (41:4)

Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? (41:5)

Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? (41:6)

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? (41:7)

Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more (41:8)

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him? (41:9)

None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? (41:10)

Who hath prevented me, that I should repay [him? whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine (41:11)

I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion (41:12)

Who can discover the face of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle? (41:13)

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible round about (41:14)

[His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal (41:15)

One is so near to another, that no air can come between them (41:16)

They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered (41:17)

By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning (41:18)

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap out (41:19)

Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or caldron (41:20)

His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth (41:21)

In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him (41:22)

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved (41:23)

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone] (41:24)

When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves (41:25)

The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon (41:26)

He esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood (41:27)

The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble (41:28)

Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear (41:29)

Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire (41:30)

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment (41:31)

He maketh a path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary (41:32)

Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear (41:33)

He beholdeth all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride (41:34)

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