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Job 41:1 (NIV)
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?
Job 41:2 (NIV)
Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
Job 41:3 (NIV)
Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?
Job 41:4 (NIV)
Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?
Job 41:5 (NIV)
Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
Job 41:6 (NIV)
Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
Job 41:7 (NIV)
Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
Job 41:8 (NIV)
If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
Job 41:9 (NIV)
Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.
Job 41:10 (NIV)
No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?
Job 41:11 (NIV)
Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
Job 41:12 (NIV)
“I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs, its strength and its graceful form.
Job 41:13 (NIV)
Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor ?
Job 41:14 (NIV)
Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?
Job 41:15 (NIV)
Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
Job 41:16 (NIV)
each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
Job 41:17 (NIV)
They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
Job 41:18 (NIV)
Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
Job 41:19 (NIV)
Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
Job 41:20 (NIV)
Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
Job 41:21 (NIV)
Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.
Job 41:22 (NIV)
Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
Job 41:23 (NIV)
The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
Job 41:24 (NIV)
Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
Job 41:25 (NIV)
When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.