1. CAN YOU draw out the leviathan (the crocodile) with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?
2. Can you put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook or a spike?
3. Will he make many supplications to you begging to be spared? Will he speak soft words to you to coax you to treat him kindly?
4. Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?
5. Will you play with the crocodile as with a bird? Or will you put him on a leash for your maidens?
6. Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7. Can you fill his skin with harpoons? Or his head with fishing spears?
8. Lay your hand upon him! Remember your battle with him; you will not do such an ill-advised thing again!
9. Behold, the hope of his assailant is disappointed; one is cast down even at the sight of him!
10. No one is so fierce and foolhardy that he dares to stir up the crocodile; who then is he who can stand before Me the beast's Creator, or dares to contend with Me?
11. Who has first given to Me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heavens is Mine. Therefore, who can have a claim against God, God Who made the unmastered crocodile? Rom. 11:35.
12. I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
13. Who can strip off the crocodile's outer garment? Who can penetrate his double coat of mail? Who shall come within his jaws?
14. Who can open the doors of his lipless mouth? His extended jaws and bare teeth are terrible round about.
15. His scales are the crocodile's pride, for his back is made of rows of shields shut up together as with a tight 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 so that they cannot be separated.
18. His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the reddish eyelids of the dawn.
19. Out of his mouth go burning torches, and sparks of fire leap out.
20. Out of his nostrils goes forth smoke, as out of a seething pot over a fire of rushes.
21. His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes forth from his mouth.
22. In the crocodile's neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.
23. The folds of his flesh cleave together; they are firm upon him, and they cannot shake when he moves.
24. His heart is as firm as a stone, indeed, as solid as a nether millstone.
25. When the crocodile raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; because of terror and the crashing they are beside themselves.
26. Even if one strikes at him with the sword, it cannot get any hold, nor does the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27. He counts iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
28. The arrow cannot make the crocodile flee; slingstones are treated by him as stubble.
29. Clubs also are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin.
30. His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery; he spreads grooves like a threshing sledge upon the mire.
31. He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a foaming pot of ointment.
32. His swift darting makes a shining track behind him; one would think the deep to be hoary with foam.
33. Upon earth there is not the crocodile's equal, a creature made without fear and he behaves fearlessly.
34. He looks all mighty beasts of prey in the face without terror; he is monarch over all the sons of pride. And now, Job, who are you who dares not arouse the unmastered crocodile, yet who dares resist Me, the beast's Creator, to My face? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?