Job 41:1-10 ▼

1 |Can you pull Leviathan out [of the water] with a fishhook or tie its tongue down with a rope?

2 Can you put a ring through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?

3 Will it plead with you for mercy or speak tenderly to you?

4 Will it make an agreement with you so that you can take it as your permanent slave?

5 Can you play with it like a bird or keep it on a leash for your girls?

6 Will traders bargain over it and divide it among the merchants?

7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

8 Lay your hand on it. Think of the struggle! Don't do it again!

9 Certainly, any hope [of defeating it] is a false hope. Doesn't the sight of it overwhelm you?

10 No one is brave enough to provoke Leviathan. Then who can stand in front of me?