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¹ Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?² Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?³ Will he make many supplications to thee? will he speak soft [words] to thee?⁴ Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?⁵ Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?⁶ Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants.⁷ Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?⁸ Lay thy hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.⁹ Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?¹⁰ None [is so] fierce that he dare rouse him: who then is able to stand before me?

¹¹ Who hath first benefited me, that I should repay [him]? [whatever is] under the whole heaven is mine.¹² I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.¹³ Who can discover the face of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle?¹⁴ Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible around.¹⁵ [His] scales [are his] pride, shut together [as with] a close 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, that they cannot be sundered.¹⁸ His sneezings flash light, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning.¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire dart forth.²⁰ Out of his nostrils issueth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or caldron.²¹ His breath kindleth coals, and a flame issueth from his mouth.²² In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.²³ The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.²⁴ His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone].²⁵ When he raiseth himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.²⁶ The sword of him that attacketh him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.²⁷ He esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood.²⁸ The arrow cannot make him flee: sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.²⁹ Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.³⁰ Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.³¹ He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.³² He maketh a path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary.³³ Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.³⁴ He beholdeth all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride.