40And the Lord said to Job:

41^*‘Can you draw out Leviathan^* with a fish-hook,
   or press down its tongue with a cord?
²Can you put a rope in its nose,
   or pierce its jaw with a hook?
³Will it make many supplications to you?
   Will it speak soft words to you?
⁴Will it make a covenant with you
   to be taken as your servant for ever?
⁵Will you play with it as with a bird,
   or will you put it on a leash for your girls?
⁶Will traders bargain over it?
   Will they divide it up among the merchants?
⁷Can you fill its skin with harpoons,
   or its head with fishing-spears?
⁸Lay hands on it;
   think of the battle; you will not do it again!
^9*Any hope of capturing it^* will be disappointed;
   were not even the gods^* overwhelmed at the sight of it?
¹⁰No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up.
   Who can stand before it?^*
11Who can confront it^* and be safe?^*
   —under the whole heaven, who?^*