Skip to content- 1Verse 1. “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
- 2Verse 2. Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
- 3Verse 3. Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
- 4Verse 4. Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
- 5Verse 5. Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
- 6Verse 6. Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
- 7Verse 7. Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
- 8Verse 8. If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
- 9Verse 9. Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
- 10Verse 10. No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
- 11Verse 11. Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
- 12Verse 12. I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
- 13Verse 13. Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
- 14Verse 14. Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
- 15Verse 15. His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
- 16Verse 16. One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
- 17Verse 17. They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
- 18Verse 18. His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
- 19Verse 19. Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
- 20Verse 20. Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
- 21Verse 21. His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
- 22Verse 22. Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
- 23Verse 23. The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
- 24Verse 24. His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
- 25Verse 25. When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
- 26Verse 26. The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
- 27Verse 27. He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
- 28Verse 28. No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
- 29Verse 29. A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
- 30Verse 30. His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
- 31Verse 31. He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
- 32Verse 32. He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
- 33Verse 33. Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!
- 34Verse 34. He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”