² You say, “I choose the appointed time;^(C)
    it is I who judge with equity.^(D)
3 When the earth and all its people quake,^(E)
    it is I who hold its pillars^(F) firm.^[b]
4 To the arrogant^(G) I say, ‘Boast no more,’^(H)
    and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horns.^[c](I)
5 Do not lift your horns against heaven;
    do not speak so defiantly.^(J)’”

⁶ No one from the east or the west
    or from the desert can exalt themselves.
⁷ It is God who judges:^(K)
    He brings one down, he exalts another.^(L)
8 In the hand of the Lord is a cup
    full of foaming wine mixed^(M) with spices;
he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth
    drink it down to its very dregs.^(N)

⁹ As for me, I will declare^(O) this forever;
    I will sing^(P) praise to the God of Jacob,^(Q)
10 who says, “I will cut off the horns of all the wicked,
    but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”^(R)

¹² “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,^(A)
    its strength^(B) and its graceful form.
¹³ Who can strip off its outer coat?
    Who can penetrate its double coat of armor^[a]?^(C)
14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth,^(D)
    ringed about with fearsome teeth?
¹⁵ Its back has^[b] rows of shields
    tightly sealed together;^(E)
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.^(F)
19 Flames^(G) stream from its mouth;
    sparks of fire shoot out.
²⁰ Smoke pours from its nostrils^(H)
    as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
²¹ Its breath^(I) sets coals ablaze,
    and flames dart from its mouth.^(J)
22 Strength^(K) resides in its neck;
    dismay goes before it.
²³ The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;
    they are firm and immovable.
²⁴ Its chest is hard as rock,
    hard as a lower millstone.^(L)
25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;^(M)
    they retreat before its thrashing.^(N)
26 The sword that reaches it has no effect,
    nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.^(O)
27 Iron it treats like straw^(P)
    and bronze like rotten wood.
²⁸ Arrows do not make it flee;^(Q)
    slingstones are like chaff to it.
²⁹ A club seems to it but a piece of straw;^(R)
    it laughs^(S) at the rattling of the lance.
³⁰ Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
    leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.^(T)
31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron^(U)
    and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.^(V)
32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
    one would think the deep had white hair.
³³ Nothing on earth is its equal^(W)—
    a creature without fear.
³⁴ It looks down on all that are haughty;^(X)
    it is king over all that are proud.^(Y)”