Job 41:10–34

¹⁰No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan;^t

who then can stand against me?

¹¹Who confronted me, that I should repay him?

Everything under heaven belongs to me.^a

¹²I cannot be silent about his limbs,

his power, and his graceful proportions.

¹³Who can strip off his outer covering?

Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?^Ab

¹⁴Who can open his jaws,^B

surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

¹⁵His pride is in his rows of scales,

closely sealed together.

¹⁶One scale is so close to another^C

that no air can pass between them.

¹⁷They are joined to one another,

so closely connected^D they cannot be separated.

¹⁸His snorting^E flashes with light,

while his eyes are like the rays^F of dawn.

¹⁹Flaming torches shoot from his mouth;

fiery sparks fly out!

²⁰Smoke billows from his nostrils^c

as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.

²¹His breath sets coals ablaze,

and flames pour out of his mouth.

²²Strength resides in his neck,

and dismay dances before him.

²³The folds of his flesh are joined together,

solid as metal^G and immovable.

²⁴His heart is as hard as a rock,

as hard as a lower millstone!

²⁵When Leviathan rises, the mighty^H are terrified;

they withdraw because of his thrashing.

²⁶The sword that reaches him will have no effect,

nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

²⁷He regards iron as straw,

and bronze as rotten wood.

²⁸No arrow can make him flee;

slingstones become like stubble to him.

²⁹A club is regarded as stubble,

and he laughs^d at the sound of a javelin.

³⁰His undersides are jagged potsherds,

spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.^e

³¹He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron;

he makes the sea like an ointment jar.

³²He leaves a shining wake behind him;^I

one would think the deep had gray hair!

³³He has no equal on earth—

a creature devoid of fear!

³⁴He surveys everything that is haughty;

he is king over all the proud beasts.^J