Capítulo 41

1 - "Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?

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

3 - Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?

4 - Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?

5 - Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?

6 - Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

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

8 - If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!

9 - Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.

10 - No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?

11 - Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.

12 - "I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and its graceful form.

13 - Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor Septuagint; Hebrew [double bridle]?

14 - Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?

15 - Its back has Or [Its pride is its] rows of shields tightly sealed together;

16 - each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.

17 - They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.

18 - Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.

19 - Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.

20 - Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

21 - Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.

22 - Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.

23 - The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

24 - Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

25 - When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.

26 - The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.

27 - Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.

28 - Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.

29 - A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

30 - Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

31 - It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.

32 - It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.

33 - Nothing on earth is its equal - a creature without fear.

34 - It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud."