1  ¹ “Can you draw out ^uLeviathan² with a fishhook

or press down his tongue with a cord?

2  Can you put ^va rope in his nose

or pierce his jaw with ^va hook?

3  Will he make many pleas to you?

Will he speak to you soft words?

4  Will he make a covenant with you

to take him for ^wyour servant forever?

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!

9  ³ Behold, the hope of a man is false;

he is laid low even at the sight of him.

10  No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.

Who then is he who can stand before me?

11  ^xWho has first given to me, that I should repay him?

^yWhatever is under the whole heaven is mine.