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41:1  "Can you pull Leviathan out [of the water] with a fishhook or tie its tongue down with a rope?
41:2  Can you put a ring through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
41:3  Will it plead with you for mercy or speak tenderly to you?
41:4  Will it make an agreement with you so that you can take it as your permanent slave?
41:5  Can you play with it like a bird or keep it on a leash for your girls?
41:6  Will traders bargain over it and divide it among the merchants?
41:7  Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
41:8  Lay your hand on it. Think of the struggle! Don't do it again!
41:9  Certainly, any hope [of defeating it] is a false hope. Doesn't the sight of it overwhelm you?
41:10  No one is brave enough to provoke Leviathan. Then who can stand in front of me?
41:11  Who can confront me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven belongs to me!
41:12  "I will not be silent about Leviathan's limbs, its strength, or its graceful form.
41:13  Who can skin its hide? Who can approach it with a harness?
41:14  Who can open its closed mouth? Its teeth are surrounded by terror.
41:15  Its back has rows of scales that are tightly sealed.
41:16  One is so close to the other that there is no space between them.
41:17  Each is joined to the other. They are locked together and inseparable.
41:18  When Leviathan sneezes, it gives out a flash of light. Its eyes are like the first rays of the dawn.
41:19  Flames shoot from its mouth. Sparks of fire fly from it.
41:20  Smoke comes from its nostrils like a boiling pot heated over brushwood.
41:21  Its breath sets coals on fire, and a flame pours from its mouth.
41:22  Strength resides in its neck, and power dances in front of it.
41:23  The folds of its flesh stick to each other. They are solid and cannot be moved.
41:24  Its chest is solid like a rock, solid like a millstone.
41:25  "The mighty are afraid when Leviathan rises. Broken down, they draw back.
41:26  A sword may strike it but not pierce it. Neither will a spear, lance, or dart.
41:27  It considers iron to be like straw and bronze to be like rotten wood.
41:28  An arrow won't make it run away. Stones from a sling turn to dust against it.
41:29  It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin.
41:30  Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery. It stretches out like a threshing sledge on the mud.
41:31  It makes the deep sea boil like a pot. It stirs up the ocean like a boiling kettle.
41:32  It leaves a shining path behind it so that the sea appears to have silvery hair.
41:33  Nothing on land can compare to it. It was made fearless.
41:34  It looks down on all high things. It is king of everyone who is arrogant."