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¹ Canst thou drawe out Liuiathan with an hooke, and with a line which thou shalt cast downe vnto his tongue?² Canst thou cast an hooke into his nose? canst thou perce his iawes with an angle?³ Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire?⁴ Will hee make a couenant with thee? and wilt thou take him as a seruant for euer?⁵ Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes?⁶ Shall the companions baket with him? shal they deuide him among the marchants?⁷ Canst thou fill the basket with his skinne? or the fishpanier with his head?⁸ Lay thine hand vpon him: remember the battel, and do no more so.⁹ Behold, his hope is in vaine: for shal not one perish euen at the sight of him?¹⁰ None is so fearce that dare stirre him vp. Who is he then that can stand before me?

¹¹ Who hath preuented mee that I shoulde make an ende? Al vnder heauen is mine.¹² I will not keepe silence concerning his partes, nor his power nor his comely proportion.¹³ Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle?¹⁴ Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull ronnd about.¹⁵ The maiestie of his scales is like strog shields, and are sure sealed.¹⁶ One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them.¹⁷ One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered.¹⁸ His niesings make the light to shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.¹⁹ Out of his mouth go lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out.²⁰ Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron.²¹ His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.²² In his necke remayneth strength, & labour is reiected before his face.²³ The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued.²⁴ His heart is as strong as a stone, & as hard as the nether milstone.²⁵ The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues.²⁶ When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon.²⁷ He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood.²⁸ The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him:²⁹ The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare.³⁰ Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre.³¹ He maketh the depth to boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment.³² He maketh a path to shine after him: one would thinke the depth as an hoare head.³³ In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare.³⁴ He beholdeth al hie things: he is a King ouer all the children of pride.