Capítulo 41

1 - Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

2 - Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?

3 - Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

4 - Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

5 - Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

6 - Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

7 - Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?

8 - Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

9 - Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!

10 - He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

11 - Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

12 - I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

13 - Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

14 - Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

15 - His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

16 - One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

17 - They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.

18 - His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

19 - Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

20 - Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.

21 - His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

22 - Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him.

23 - The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved.

24 - His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.

25 - When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

26 - The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

27 - Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

28 - The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

29 - A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

30 - Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

31 - The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

32 - After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.

33 - On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.

34 - Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.