1 | "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord? | Jb 3:8 Ps 74:14 Ps 104:26 Isa 27:1 |
2 | Can you put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook? | Isa 27:1 Isa 37:29 Ezk 29:4 Ezk 29:5 |
3 | Will he make many petitions to you? Or will he speak soft words to you? | Ps 55:21 Pr 15:1 Pr 18:23 Pr 25:15 Isa 30:10 |
4 | Will he make a covenant with you, That you should take him for a servant forever? | 1Ki 20:31-34 |
5 | Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls? | Jg 16:25-30 |
6 | Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants? | Jg 14:11 |
7 | Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears? |
8 | Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more. | 1Ki 20:11 2Ki 10:4 Lk 14:31 Lk 14:32 |
9 | Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him? | Dt 28:34 1Sa 3:11 Isa 28:19 Lk 21:11 |
10 | None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? | Gn 49:9 Nm 24:9 Ps 2:11 Ps 2:12 Ezk 8:17 Ezk 8:18 |
11 | Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine. | Jb 22:2 Jb 22:3 Jb 35:7 Ps 21:3 Ro 11:35 |
12 | "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. | Gn 1:25 |
13 | Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws? | 2Ki 19:28 Ps 32:9 Jm 3:3 |
14 | Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. | Jb 38:10 Ec 12:4 |
15 | Strong scales are his pride, Shut up together with a close seal. | Jer 9:23 |
16 | One is so near to another, That no air can come between them. |
17 | They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they can`t be pulled apart. |
18 | His sneezing flashes forth light, His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. | Jb 3:9 Rev 1:14 |
19 | Out of his mouth go burning torches, Sparks of fire leap forth. | Ps 18:8 |
20 | Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, As of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds. | Jer 1:13 Jer 1:14 |
21 | His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth. | Ps 18:8 Ps 18:12 Isa 30:33 Hab 3:5 |
22 | In his neck there is strength. Terror dances before him. | Jb 39:19 Jb 40:16 |
23 | The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can`t be moved. |
24 | His heart is as firm as a stone, Yes, firm as the lower millstone. | Isa 48:4 Jer 5:3 Zc 7:12 |
25 | When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing. | Ps 107:28 Jon 1:4-6 |
26 | If one lay at him with the sword, it can`t avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. | Jb 39:21-24 |
27 | He counts iron as straw; And brass as rotten wood. |
28 | The arrow can`t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him. | Jb 39:7 Hab 1:10 |
29 | Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin. | 2Ch 26:14 |
30 | His undersides are like sharp potsherds, Leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. |
31 | He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. |
32 | He makes a path to shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair. | Gn 1:15 |
33 | On earth there is not his equal, That is made without fear. | Jb 40:19 |
34 | He sees everything that is high: He is king over all the sons of pride." | Jb 26:12 Ex 5:2 Ps 73:6 Ps 73:10 Isa 28:1 Ezk 29:3 Rev 12:1-3 Rev 13:2 Rev 20:2 Rev 20:3 |