1. “Can you pull Leviathan out ⌊of the water⌋ with a fishhookor tie its tongue down with a rope?
2. Can you put a ring through its noseor pierce its jaw with a hook?
3. Will it plead with you for mercyor speak tenderly to you?
4. Will it make an agreement with youso that you can take it as your permanent slave?
5. Can you play with it like a birdor keep it on a leash for your girls?
6. Will traders bargain over itand divide it among the merchants?
7. Can you fill its hide with harpoonsor its head with fishing spears?
8. Lay your hand on it.Think of the struggle!Don’t do it again!
9. Certainly, any hope ⌊of defeating it⌋ is a false hope.Doesn’t the sight of it overwhelm you?
10. No one is brave enough to provoke Leviathan.Then who can stand in front of me?
11. Who can confront me that I should repay him?Everything under heaven belongs to me!
12. “I will not be silent about Leviathan’s limbs,its strength, or its graceful form.