^[1]  Can you draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?

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^[2]  Can you put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

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^[3]  Will he make many supplications to you? will he speak soft words to you?

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^[4]  Will he make a covenant with you? will you take him for a servant for ever?

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^[5]  Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your maidens?

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^[6]  Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

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^[7]  Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

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^[8]  Lay your hand on him, remember the battle, do no more.

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^[9]  Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

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^[10]  None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

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^[11]  Who has prevented me, that I should repay him? whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

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^[12]  I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

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^[13]  Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

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^[14]  Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

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^[15]  His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

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^[16]  One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

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^[17]  They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

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^[18]  By his neesings a light does shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

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^[19]  Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

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^[20]  Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

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^[21]  His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

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^[22]  In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

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^[23]  The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

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^[24]  His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

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^[25]  When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

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^[26]  The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

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^[27]  He esteems iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

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^[28]  The arrow cannot make him flee: sling stones are turned with him into stubble.

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^[29]  Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.

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^[30]  Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things on the mire.

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^[31]  He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

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^[32]  He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

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^[33]  On earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

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^[34]  He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

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