1 GOD CONTINUES TO QUESTION JOB:
2 禄Can you catch Leviathan with a fishhook or tie his tongue down with a rope?
3 禄Can you put a rope through his snout or put a hook through his jaws?
4 禄Will he beg you to let him go? Will he plead with you for mercy?
5 禄Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?
6 禄Will you tie him like a pet bird, like something to amuse your servant women?
7 禄Will fishermen bargain over him? Will merchants cut him up to sell?
8 禄Can you fill his hide with fishing spears or pierce his head with a harpoon?
9 禄Indeed, hope of overcoming him is false. Should you be overwhelmed at the sight of him?
10 禄No one is as fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against me?
11 禄Who has preceded me that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is mine.
12 禄I will not conceal his limbs, his mighty power, or his graceful proportions.
13 禄Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?
14 禄Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?
15 禄His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as a seal.
16 禄One is so near another that no air can come between them.
17 禄They are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted.
18 禄Its sneezes flash forth light, and its eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
19 禄From its mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap out.
20 禄Out of its nostrils comes smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
21 禄Its breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of its mouth.
22 禄In its neck abides strength, and terror dances before it.
23 禄The folds of its flesh cling together; it is firmly cast and immovable.
24 禄Its heart is as hard as stone, as hard as the lower millstone.
25 禄When it raises itself up the gods are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.
26 禄Though the sword reaches it, it does not avail, nor does the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27 禄It considers iron to be like straw and bronze to be like rotten wood.
28 禄An arrow will not make it run away. Stones from a sling turn to dust against it.
29 禄It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin.
30 禄Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery. It stretches out like a threshing sledge on the mud.
31 禄It makes the deep sea boil like a pot. It stirs up the ocean like a boiling kettle.
32 禄It leaves a shining path behind it so that the sea appears to have silvery hair.
33 禄Nothing on land can compare to it. It was made fearless.
34 禄It looks down on all high things. It is king of everyone who is arrogant.