| 41:1 | "Can you pull Leviathan out of the water with a fishhook or tie its tongue down with a rope? |
| 41:2 | Can you put a ring through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook? |
| 41:3 | Will it plead with you for mercy or speak tenderly to you? |
| 41:4 | Will it make an agreement with you so that you can take it as your permanent slave? |
| 41:5 | Can you play with it like a bird or keep it on a leash for your girls? |
| 41:6 | Will traders bargain over it and divide it among the merchants? |
| 41:7 | Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? |
| 41:8 | Lay your hand on it. Think of the struggle! Don't do it again! |
| 41:9 | Certainly, any hope of defeating it is a false hope. Doesn't the sight of it overwhelm you? |
| 41:10 | No one is brave enough to provoke Leviathan. Then who can stand in front of me? |
| 41:11 | Who can confront me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven belongs to me! |
| 41:12 | "I will not be silent about Leviathan's limbs, its strength, or its graceful form. |
| 41:13 | Who can skin its hide? Who can approach it with a harness? |
| 41:14 | Who can open its closed mouth? Its teeth are surrounded by terror. |
| 41:15 | Its back has rows of scales that are tightly sealed. |
| 41:16 | One is so close to the other that there is no space between them. |
| 41:17 | Each is joined to the other. They are locked together and inseparable. |
| 41:18 | When Leviathan sneezes, it gives out a flash of light. Its eyes are like the first rays of the dawn. |
| 41:19 | Flames shoot from its mouth. Sparks of fire fly from it. |
| 41:20 | Smoke comes from its nostrils like a boiling pot heated over brushwood. |
| 41:21 | Its breath sets coals on fire, and a flame pours from its mouth. |
| 41:22 | Strength resides in its neck, and power dances in front of it. |
| 41:23 | The folds of its flesh stick to each other. They are solid and cannot be moved. |
| 41:24 | Its chest is solid like a rock, solid like a millstone. |
| 41:25 | "The mighty are afraid when Leviathan rises. Broken down, they draw back. |
| 41:26 | A sword may strike it but not pierce it. Neither will a spear, lance, or dart. |
| 41:27 | It considers iron to be like straw and bronze to be like rotten wood. |
| 41:28 | An arrow won't make it run away. Stones from a sling turn to dust against it. |
| 41:29 | It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin. |
| 41:30 | Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery. It stretches out like a threshing sledge on the mud. |
| 41:31 | It makes the deep sea boil like a pot. It stirs up the ocean like a boiling kettle. |
| 41:32 | It leaves a shining path behind it so that the sea appears to have silvery hair. |
| 41:33 | Nothing on land can compare to it. It was made fearless. |
| 41:34 | It looks down on all high things. It is king of everyone who is arrogant." |
Ayub 41 - God's Word Translation
