41 ^[a]“Can you pull in Leviathan^(A) with a fishhook^(B)
    or tie down its tongue with a rope?
² Can you put a cord through its nose^(C)
    or pierce its jaw with a hook?^(D)
3 Will it keep begging you for mercy?^(E)
    Will it speak to you with gentle words?
⁴ Will it make an agreement with you
    for you to take it as your slave for life?^(F)
5 Can you make a pet of it like a bird
    or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
⁶ Will traders barter for it?
    Will they divide it up among the merchants?
⁷ Can you fill its hide with harpoons
    or its head with fishing spears?^(G)
8 If you lay a hand on it,
    you will remember the struggle and never do it again!^(H)
9 Any hope of subduing it is false;
    the mere sight of it is overpowering.^(I)
10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it.^(J)
    Who then is able to stand against me?^(K)
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay?^(L)
    Everything under heaven belongs to me.^(M)

¹² “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,^(N)
    its strength^(O) and its graceful form.
¹³ Who can strip off its outer coat?
    Who can penetrate its double coat of armor^[b]?^(P)
14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth,^(Q)
    ringed about with fearsome teeth?
¹⁵ Its back has^[c] rows of shields
    tightly sealed together;^(R)
16 each is so close to the next
    that no air can pass between.
¹⁷ They are joined fast to one another;
    they cling together and cannot be parted.
¹⁸ Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
    its eyes are like the rays of dawn.^(S)
19 Flames^(T) stream from its mouth;
    sparks of fire shoot out.
²⁰ Smoke pours from its nostrils^(U)
    as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

³¹ It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron^(A)
    and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.^(B)
32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
    one would think the deep had white hair.
³³ Nothing on earth is its equal^(C)—
    a creature without fear.
³⁴ It looks down on all that are haughty;^(D)
    it is king over all that are proud.^(E)”