3
Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?
5
Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?
6
Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7
Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8
Lay your hands on him; remember the battle--you will not do it again!
10
No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
11
5Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? 6Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12
"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.
13
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?
14
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
16
One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
19
Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.
20
Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
22
In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.
24
His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.
26
Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27
He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
28
The arrow cannot make him flee; for him sling stones are turned to stubble.
29
Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.
30
His underparts are like sharp 11potsherds; he spreads himself like 12a threshing sledge on the mire.
31
He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32
Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired.
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)