Jó 41
1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?
2Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?
4Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?
5Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
6Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
8If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
9Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.
10No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?
11Who 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.
13Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor?
14Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?
15Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
16each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
17They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.