1. Can you draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?
2. Can you put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3. Will he make many supplications to you? will he speak soft words to you?
4. Will he make an agreement with you? will you take him for a servant for ever?
5. Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your maidens?
6. Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they divide him among the merchants?
7. Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8. Lay your hand upon him, remember the battle, and do it no more.
9. Behold, the hope of taking him is in vain: shall not one be brought low even at the sight of him?
10. None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
11. Who has gone before me, that I should repay him? whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12. I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his pleasant proportion.
13. Who can uncover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
14. Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
15. His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16. One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17. They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be separated.
18. By his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19. Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20. Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a boiling pot or caldron.
21. His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
22. In his neck remains strength, and sorrow exults before him.
23. The flaps of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24. His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the lower millstone.
25. When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid: because of destruction they purify themselves.
26. The sword of him that strikes at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27. He esteems iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28. The arrow cannot make him flee: sling stones are turned with him into stubble.
29. Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.
30. Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed barbs upon the mire.
31. He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32. He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be gray with age.
33. Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34. He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
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