Can you draw out leviathan with a hook, / Or press down his tongue with a cord?
你能用鱼钩钓上鳄鱼，或用绳子压下它的舌头么？

Can you put a rope in his nose, / Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
你能用绳索穿它的鼻子，或用钩穿它的腮骨么？

Will he make many supplications unto you, / Or speak soft words to you?
它岂向你连连恳求，或说柔和的话么？

Will he make a covenant with you / That you would take him as a servant forever?
它岂肯与你立约，使你拿它永远作奴仆么？

Will you play with him as with a bird, / Or bind him for your maidens?
你岂可拿它当雀鸟玩耍，或为你的幼女将它拴住么？

Will the traders bargain over him? / Will they divide him up among merchants?
搭伙的渔夫，岂可拿它当货物买卖么？岂能把它分给商人么？

Can you fill his skin with harpoons, / Or his head with fishing spears?
你能用倒钩枪扎满它的皮，或用鱼叉叉满它的头么？

Lay your hand on him, / And remember the battle — you will never do it again!
你按手在它身上，想起与它的争战──你绝不再这样行了！

Indeed, any hope for him is vain; / Will not one be even cast down at the sight of him?
看哪，人指望捉拿它，是徒然的；一见它，岂不惊倒么？

No one is so fierce as to stir him up; / Who then is he who would stand before Me?
没有那么凶猛的人敢惹它；这样，谁能在我面前站立得住？

Who has first given to Me that I should repay him? / Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.
谁曾先给了我，使我后来偿还？普天之下，万物都是我的。

I will not be silent about his limbs / Or about the account of his mighty deeds or about the beauty of his frame.
论到鳄鱼的肢体，和其大力，并美好的体格，我不能缄默不言。

Who can strip off his outer garment? / Who can go within his double jaws?
谁能剥掉它的外衣？谁能进它双颚之间？

Who can open the doors of his face? / Around his teeth is terror.
谁能开它的腮颊？它牙齿的四围是可畏的。

His pride is his rows of scales, / Shut up as with a tight seal.
它以成排的鳞甲为可夸，紧紧合闭，封得严密。

One is so near the other / That the air cannot pass between them.
这鳞甲一一相连，气也不得透入其间；

Each is joined to the other; / They stick together and cannot be separated.
都是互相联络，胶结不能分离。

His sneezes flash forth light, / And his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
它打喷嚏，就发出光来；它眼睛好像黎明的光线；

Out of his mouth go forth flaming torches; / Sparks of fire leap out.
从它口中发出烧着的火把，有火星飞迸而出。

Out of his nostrils comes smoke, / As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
从它鼻孔冒出烟来，如烧开的锅，和点着的灯心草。

His breath kindles coals, / And a flame comes from his mouth.
它的气点着煤炭，有火焰从它口中发出。

In his neck abides strength, / And terror dances before him.
它颈项中存着劲力，在它面前的都惊恐蹦跳。

The folds of his flesh are joined together; / They are firm upon him and immovable.
它下垂的肉块互相联络，紧贴其身，不能摇动。

His heart is as firm as stone, / Indeed as firm as the lower millstone.
它的心结实如石头，如下磨石那样结实。

At his rising up, the mighty fear; / They are beside themselves with consternation.
它一起来，勇士都惊恐；因着惊愕，便都昏乱。

The sword that reaches him cannot avail, / Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
刀剑扎上它，全都无用，枪、标枪、尖枪也都无效。

He considers iron shafts as straw, / And bronze ones as rotted wood.
它以铁为干草，以铜为烂木。

The arrow does not make him flee; / With him slingstones turn to stubble.
箭不能使它逃避；弹石打在它身上就变成碎秸。

Clubs are considered as stubble; / He laughs at the quivering javelin.
棍棒算如禾秸；它嗤笑短枪飕的响声。

His underparts are like sharp potsherds; / He spreads himself like a threshing sledge upon the mire.
它肚腹下如尖瓦片；它如钉耙碾过淤泥。

He makes the deep boil like a cauldron; / He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
它使深渊开滚如锅，使洋海如锅中沸腾的膏油。

Behind him he makes a shining wake; / One would think the deep to be white-haired.
它使行过的路发光，令人把深渊当作白发老人。

On earth there is none his equal, / Who is made without fear.
在地上没有一样能与它相比，它受造无所惧怕。

He beholds everything that is high; / He is king over all the sons of pride.
凡高大的，它都观看而不惧怕；它在一切骄傲的水族以上作王。