| 1. | Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said, |
| 2. | Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers. |
| 3. | Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right? |
| 4. | Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his? |
| 5. | Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power: |
| 6. | Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low. |
| 7. | Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places. |
| 8. | Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld. |
| 9. | Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation. |
| 10. | See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox. |
| 11. | His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach. |
| 12. | His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together. |
| 13. | His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron. |
| 14. | He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure. |
| 15. | He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play. |
| 16. | He takes his rest under the trees of the river, and in the pool, under the shade of the water-plants. |
| 17. | He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him. |
| 18. | Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth. |
| 19. | Will anyone take him when he is on the watch, or put metal teeth through his nose? |
| 20. | Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth? |
| 21. | Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue? |
| 22. | Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you? |
| 23. | Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever? |
| 24. | Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women? |
| 25. | Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders? |
| 26. | Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head? |
| 27. | Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again! |
| 28. | Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him! |