¹　神造鱷魚，顯出他偉大“你能用魚鉤釣上鱷魚嗎？能用繩子把牠的舌頭壓下嗎？

¹“Can you draw out Leviathan Leviathan is a name for a crocodile or similar creature. with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

²能把草繩穿進牠的鼻子嗎？能用刺鉤穿透牠的腮骨嗎？

²Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

³牠會向你再三懇求，對你說溫柔的話嗎？

³Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

⁴牠肯與你立約，好使你永遠奴役牠嗎？

⁴Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?

⁵你怎能玩弄牠，像玩弄雀鳥一樣呢？怎能把牠拴住，給你的幼女取樂呢？

⁵Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

⁶結夥的漁夫怎能拿牠當貨物買賣呢？怎能把牠分給商人呢？

⁶Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?

⁷你能用倒鉤扎滿牠的皮嗎？能用魚叉扎滿牠的頭嗎？

⁷Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

⁸你把手按在牠身上，想到與牠的戰鬥，你就不再是這樣作了。（本章第1~8節在《馬索拉抄本》為40:25~32）

⁸Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

⁹人希望捉住牠是徒然的，人一見牠，就心驚膽戰。（本節在《馬索拉抄本》為41:1）

⁹Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?

¹⁰人惹牠的時候，牠不是很兇猛嗎？這樣，有誰人在我面前能站立得住呢？

¹⁰None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

¹¹誰先給了我，以致我要償還呢？天下萬物，都是我的。

¹¹Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

¹²論到鱷魚的四肢和牠的力氣，以及美好的體態，我不能緘默不言。

¹²“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

¹³誰能揭開牠的外皮呢？誰能進入牠上下兩顎之間呢？

¹³Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

¹⁴誰能打開牠的口呢？牠的牙齒令人戰慄。

¹⁴Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

¹⁵牠的背有一行一行的鱗甲，緊緊合閉著，像印得很緊的印章一樣。

¹⁵Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

¹⁶這鱗甲一一相連接，連氣也透不入其間，

¹⁶One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

¹⁷鱗甲一一互相連合，互相緊貼，不能分離。

¹⁷They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.

¹⁸牠打的噴嚏閃出光來，牠的眼睛如同清晨的陽光；

¹⁸His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

¹⁹有火從牠的口中發出，火星四射；

¹⁹Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

²⁰有煙從牠的鼻孔裡冒出來，像從沸騰的鍋中和燒著的蘆葦裡冒出來一樣；

²⁰Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

²¹牠的氣可以點著煤炭，有火燄從牠的口裡噴出來，

²¹His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

²²牠的頸項上存著能力，驚恐在牠面前跳躍。

²²There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

²³牠下垂的肌肉緊貼在一起，牢牢地貼在身上，不能搖動。

²³The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.

²⁴牠的心堅實如石頭，如下磨石那樣堅實。

²⁴His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

²⁵牠一起來，勇士都驚慌，因驚惶過度舉止失措。

²⁵When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

²⁶追上牠的刀劍都沒用，矛槍、標槍、短槍也是這樣。

²⁶If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

²⁷牠把鐵當作乾草，把銅當作朽木。

²⁷He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

²⁸弓箭不能使牠逃跑，甩石機弦在牠看來不過是碎秸。

²⁸The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

²⁹棍棒被牠當作碎秸，短槍颼颼之聲牠也譏笑。

²⁹Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

³⁰牠的腹下像銳利的瓦片，牠在泥上碾過如同有利釘的耙犁田一樣。

³⁰His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

³¹牠使深淵沸騰，牠攪動海洋如在鼎中調製膏油。

³¹He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

³²牠使自己行過的路發出白光，令人把深淵當作白髮老人。

³²He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

³³在世上沒有一樣像牠的，牠是無所懼怕的動物；

³³On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.

³⁴所有高大的動物，牠都藐視，牠在一切狂傲的野獸之上作王。”

³⁴He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”