1  ¹ “Can you draw out ^uLeviathan² with a fishhook

or press down his tongue with a cord?

2  Can you put ^va rope in his nose

or pierce his jaw with ^va hook?

3  Will he make many pleas to you?

Will he speak to you soft words?

4  Will he make a covenant with you

to take him for ^wyour servant forever?

20  Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke,

as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

21  His breath ^bkindles coals,

and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

22  In his neck abides strength,

and terror dances before him.

23  The folds of his flesh ^cstick together,

firmly cast on him and immovable.

24  His heart is hard as a stone,

hard as the lower millstone.

25  When he raises himself up, the mighty¹ are afraid;

at the crashing they are beside themselves.

26  Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,

nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

27  He counts iron as straw,

and bronze as rotten wood.

28  The arrow cannot make him flee;

for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.

29  Clubs are counted as stubble;

he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

30  His underparts are like sharp ^dpotsherds;

he spreads himself like ^ea threshing sledge on the mire.

31  He makes the deep boil like a pot;

he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

32  Behind him he leaves a shining wake;

one would think the deep to be white-haired.

33  ^fOn earth there is not his like,

a creature without fear.

34  He sees everything that is high;

he is king over all the ^gsons of pride.”