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“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook
or tie down its tongue with a rope?
or tie down its tongue with a rope?
Can you tie it with a rope through the nose
or pierce its jaw with a spike?
or pierce its jaw with a spike?
Can you put a cord through its nose
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
Will it beg you for mercy
or implore you for pity?
or implore you for pity?
Will it keep begging you for mercy?
Will it speak to you with gentle words?
Will it speak to you with gentle words?
Will it agree to work for you,
to be your slave for life?
to be your slave for life?
Will it make an agreement with you
for you to take it as your slave for life?
for you to take it as your slave for life?
Can you make it a pet like a bird,
or give it to your little girls to play with?
or give it to your little girls to play with?
Can you make a pet of it like a bird
or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
Will merchants try to buy it
to sell it in their shops?
to sell it in their shops?
Will traders barter for it?
Will they divide it up among the merchants?
Will they divide it up among the merchants?
Will its hide be hurt by spears
or its head by a harpoon?
or its head by a harpoon?
Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?
or its head with fishing spears?
If you lay a hand on it,
you will certainly remember the battle that follows.
You won’t try that again!
you will certainly remember the battle that follows.
You won’t try that again!
If you lay a hand on it,
you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
Any hope of subduing it is false;
the mere sight of it is overpowering.
the mere sight of it is overpowering.
And since no one dares to disturb it,
who then can stand up to me?
who then can stand up to me?
No one is fierce enough to rouse it.
Who then is able to stand against me?
Who then is able to stand against me?
Who has given me anything that I need to pay back?
Everything under heaven is mine.
Everything under heaven is mine.
Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me.
Everything under heaven belongs to me.
“I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs
and its enormous strength and graceful form.
and its enormous strength and graceful form.
“I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,
its strength and its graceful form.
its strength and its graceful form.
Who could pry open its jaws?
For its teeth are terrible!
For its teeth are terrible!
Who dares open the doors of its mouth,
ringed about with fearsome teeth?
ringed about with fearsome teeth?
They are so close together
that no air can get between them.
that no air can get between them.
each is so close to the next
that no air can pass between.
that no air can pass between.
Each scale sticks tight to the next.
They interlock and cannot be penetrated.
They interlock and cannot be penetrated.
They are joined fast to one another;
they cling together and cannot be parted.
they cling together and cannot be parted.
“When it sneezes, it flashes light!
Its eyes are like the red of dawn.
Its eyes are like the red of dawn.
Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
Lightning leaps from its mouth;
flames of fire flash out.
flames of fire flash out.
Flames stream from its mouth;
sparks of fire shoot out.
sparks of fire shoot out.
Smoke streams from its nostrils
like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.
like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.
Smoke pours from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
Its breath would kindle coals,
for flames shoot from its mouth.
for flames shoot from its mouth.
Its breath sets coals ablaze,
and flames dart from its mouth.
and flames dart from its mouth.
“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck
strikes terror wherever it goes.
strikes terror wherever it goes.
Strength resides in its neck;
dismay goes before it.
dismay goes before it.
Its flesh is hard and firm
and cannot be penetrated.
and cannot be penetrated.
The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm and immovable.
they are firm and immovable.
Its heart is hard as rock,
hard as a millstone.
hard as a millstone.
Its chest is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.
hard as a lower millstone.
When it rises, the mighty are afraid,
gripped by terror.
gripped by terror.
When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;
they retreat before its thrashing.
they retreat before its thrashing.
No sword can stop it,
no spear, dart, or javelin.
no spear, dart, or javelin.
The sword that reaches it has no effect,
nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
Iron is nothing but straw to that creature,
and bronze is like rotten wood.
and bronze is like rotten wood.
Iron it treats like straw
and bronze like rotten wood.
and bronze like rotten wood.
Arrows cannot make it flee.
Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.
Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.
Arrows do not make it flee;
slingstones are like chaff to it.
slingstones are like chaff to it.
Clubs are like a blade of grass,
and it laughs at the swish of javelins.
and it laughs at the swish of javelins.
A club seems to it but a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass.
It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.
It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.
Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
“Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion.
It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment.
It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment.
It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
The water glistens in its wake,
making the sea look white.
making the sea look white.
It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had white hair.
one would think the deep had white hair.
Nothing on earth is its equal,
no other creature so fearless.
no other creature so fearless.
Nothing on earth is its equal —
a creature without fear.
a creature without fear.