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God's Power Shown in Creatures

¹ "^(F1)Can you draw out ^(F2)(C1)Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?

² "Can you ^(C1)put a rope made of rushes into his nose
Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

³ "Will he make many supplications to you begging to be spared?
Or will he speak soft words to you to coax you to treat him kindly?

⁴ "Will he make a covenant or an arrangement with you?
Will you take him for your servant forever?

⁵ "Will you play with him as with a bird?
Or will you bind him and put him on a leash for your maidens?

⁶ "Will traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?

⁷ "Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?

⁸ "Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle with him; you will not do such an ill-advised thing again!

⁹ "^(F1)Behold, his assailant's hope and expectation of defeating Leviathan is false;
Will not one be overwhelmed even at the sight of him?

¹⁰ "No one is so fierce and foolhardy that he dares to ^(C1)stir up Leviathan;
Who then is he who can stand before Me or dares to contend with Me, the beast's creator?

¹¹ "Who has first ^(C1)given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is ^(C2)under the whole heaven is Mine. Who can have a claim against Me who made the unmastered beast? ^(VR1)

¹² "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
Nor his mighty strength, nor his orderly frame.

¹³ "Who can penetrate or strip off his outer armor?
Who can come to his jaws with a double bridle?

¹⁴ "Who can open the doors (jaws) of his face?
Around his open jaws and teeth there is terror.

¹⁵ "His strong scales are his pride,
Bound together as with a tight seal.

¹⁶ "One is so near to another
That no air can come between them.

¹⁷ "They are joined one to another;
They stick together and cannot be separated.

¹⁸ "His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the reddish ^(C1)eyelids of the dawn.

¹⁹ "Out of his mouth go burning torches,
And sparks of fire leap out.

²⁰ "Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and as from burning rushes.

²¹ "His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

²² "In Leviathan's neck resides strength,
And dismay and terror dance before him.

²³ "The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm on him and immobile when he moves.

²⁴ "His heart is as hard as a stone,
Indeed, as solid as a lower millstone.

²⁵ "When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

²⁶ "The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor does the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

²⁷ "He considers iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.

²⁸ "The arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are treated as stubble by him.

²⁹ "Clubs also are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin.

³⁰ "His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery;
He moves across and spreads out grooves like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks).

³¹ "He makes the deep water boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a foaming pot of ointment.

³² "Behind him he makes a shining wake;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired with foam.

³³ "^(C1)Upon earth there is nothing like him—no equal exists,
A creature made without fear.

³⁴ "He looks on everything that is high without terror;
He is monarch over all the ^(C1)sons of pride. And now, Job, ^(F1)who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast's creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?"