⁸ May those who curse days^[a] curse that day,^(A)
    those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.^(B)

41 ^[a]“Can you pull in Leviathan^(A) with a fishhook^(B)
    or tie down its tongue with a rope?

¹⁰ No one is fierce enough to rouse it.^(A)
    Who then is able to stand against me?^(B)

¹⁷ “‘We played the pipe for you,
    and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge,
    and you did not mourn.’

“There will be wailing^(A) in all the streets^(B)
    and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers^(C) will be summoned to weep
    and the mourners to wail.

“Consider now! Call for the wailing women^(A) to come;
    send for the most skillful of them.
¹⁸ Let them come quickly
    and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
    and water streams from our eyelids.^(B)

²⁵ When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;^(A)
    they retreat before its thrashing.^(B)