41:1 (40:25) 1 “Can you pull in 2 Leviathan with a hook,
and tie down 3 its tongue with a rope?
41:2 Can you put a cord through its nose,
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
41:3 Will it make numerous supplications to you, 4
will it speak to you with tender words? 5
41:4 Will it make a pact 6 with you,
so you could take it 7 as your slave for life?
41:5 Can you play 8 with it, like a bird,
or tie it on a leash 9 for your girls?
41:6 Will partners 10 bargain 11 for it?
Will they divide it up 12 among the merchants?
41:7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?
41:8 If you lay your hand on it,
you will remember 13 the fight,
and you will never do it again!
41:9 (41:1) 14 See, his expectation is wrong, 15
he is laid low even at the sight of it. 16
41:10 Is it not fierce 17 when it is awakened?
Who is he, then, who can stand before it? 18
41:11 (Who has confronted 19 me that I should repay? 20
Everything under heaven belongs to me!) 21
41:12 I will not keep silent about its limbs,
and the extent of its might,
and the grace of its arrangement. 22
41:13 Who can uncover its outer covering? 23
Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? 24
41:14 Who can open the doors of its mouth? 25
Its teeth all around are fearsome.
41:15 Its back 26 has rows of shields,
shut up closely 27 together as with a seal;
41:16 each one is so close to the next 28
that no air can come between them.
41:17 They lock tightly together, one to the next; 29
they cling together and cannot be separated.
41:18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the red glow 30 of dawn.