41:1 ( 40:25) “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?
41:2 Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?
41:3 Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words?
41:4 Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?
41:5 Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it up for your girls?
41:6 Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
41:7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
41:8 If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the struggle, and you will not do it again!
41:9 See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.
41:10 Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?
41:11 “Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
41:12 “I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.
41:13 Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor?
41:14 Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.
41:15 Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal;
41:16 each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them.
41:17 They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated.
41:18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.