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📚“Can you draw out the leviathan 📖 with a hook, or catch his tongue with a rope you lower? 2 📚Can you put a reed through his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 📚Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you?
4 📚Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever?
5 📚Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you keep him on a leash for your maids?
6 📚Will your companions make a banquet of him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons, or his head with fishing spears?
8 📚If you put your hand on him, you will remember the battle, and not do so again.
9 📚See, hope about him is in vain; the mere sight of him will bring you down.
10 📚“No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is able to stand against me?
11 📚Who has previously given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
12 📚I will not keep silent about his limbs, his strength, or his graceful proportions.
13 📚Who can take off his outer coat? Who can approach him with his double bridle?
14 📚Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?
15 📚His scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
16 They are so close to each other that no air gets between them.
17 They are joined to each other; they stick together, so that they cannot be separated.
18 📚A light flashes out when he sneezes, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
19 📚From his mouth issue burning torches; sparks of fire leap out.
20 📚Smoke issues from his nostrils, as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 📚His breath sets coals on fire, and a flame comes from his mouth.
22 📚Strength lodges in his neck, and dismay dances before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are joined together; on him they are firm and immovable.
24 📚His heart is as hard as a stone; yes, as hard as the lower millstone.
25 📚When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. Because of his crashing about they get out of the way.
26 📚The sword that reaches him cannot prove itself; nor can the spear, the dart or the javelin.
27 He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
28 📚The arrow cannot make him flee; stones from slings are like stubble to him.
29 📚Darts are regarded as straw. He laughs at the shaking of a spear.
30 📚His underside is like sharp pieces of pottery; on the mire he spreads out like a threshing sledge.
31 He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 📚He leaves a shining wake behind him; one might think the deep has white hair.
33 📚On earth there is nothing like him; he has been made fearless.
34 📚He looks down on all that is high; he is king over all the children of pride 📖”.