¹Dapatkah kautangkap si buaya Lewiatan, hanya dengan sebuah pancing ikan? Dapatkah lidahnya kautambat dengan tali-tali pengikat?

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?

²Dapatkah engkau memasang tali pada hidungnya ataupun kait besi pada rahangnya?

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

³Mungkinkah ia mohon padamu untuk dibebaskan? atau berunding denganmu, minta belas kasihan?

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

⁴Mungkinkah ia membuat persetujuan denganmu, dan berjanji akan selalu melayanimu?

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

⁵Mungkinkah engkau mengikatnya seperti burung peliharaan, yang menyenangkan hamba-hamba perempuan?

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

⁶Mungkinkah ia diperdagangkan oleh nelayan-nelayan dan dibagi-bagikan di antara para pedagang?

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

⁷Dapatkah kautusuk kulitnya dengan tombak bermata tiga atau kaulempari dia dengan lembing yang menembus kepalanya?

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

⁸Sentuhlah dia sekali saja, dan tak akan lagi engkau mengulanginya; pertarungan itu tak akan kaulupakan selama-lamanya.

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

⁹Setiap orang yang melihat Lewiatan, akan menjadi lemah lalu jatuh pingsan.

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

¹⁰Ia ganas bila dibangunkan dari tidurnya; tak seorang pun berani berdiri di hadapannya.

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

¹¹Siapa yang dapat menyerangnya tanpa kena cedera? Di dunia ini tak ada yang sanggup melakukannya.

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

¹²Marilah Kuceritakan tentang anggota badan Lewiatan, tentang kekuatannya dan bentuknya yang tampan.

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

¹³Tak seorang pun dapat mengoyakkan baju luarnya atau menembus baju perang yang dipakainya.

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

¹⁴Siapa dapat membuka moncongnya yang kuat, berisi gigi-gigi yang dahsyat?

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

¹⁵Bagai perisai tersusun, itulah punggungnya terlekat rapat, seperti batu kerasnya.

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

¹⁶Tindih-menindih, terikat erat, sehingga angin pun tak dapat masuk menyelinap.

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

¹⁷Perisai itu begitu kuat bertautan sehingga tak mungkin diceraikan.

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

¹⁸Apabila Lewiatan bersin, berpijaran cahaya; matanya berkilau bagai terbitnya sang surya.

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

¹⁹Lidah api menghambur dari mulutnya; bunga api berpancaran ke mana-mana.

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

²⁰Asap mengepul dari dalam hidungnya, seperti asap kayu bakar di bawah belanga.

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

²¹Napasnya menyalakan bara; nyala api keluar dari mulutnya.

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

²²Tengkuknya demikian kuatnya, sehingga semuanya ketakutan di hadapannya.

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

²³Tak ada tempat lemah pada kulitnya; tak mungkin pecah karena sekeras baja.

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

²⁴Hatinya seteguh batu, tak kenal bimbang kokoh dan keras seperti batu gilingan.

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

²⁵Bila ia bangkit, orang terkuat pun kehilangan keberanian, dibuat tak berdaya karena sangat ketakutan.

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

²⁶Tak ada pedang yang dapat melukainya; tombak, panah ataupun lembing tak dapat menyakitinya.

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

²⁷Besi dianggapnya sehalus rerumputan dan tembaga selunak kayu bercendawan.

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

²⁸Tak ada panah yang dapat menghalau dia; batu yang dilemparkan kepadanya seolah-olah jerami saja.

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

²⁹Gada dianggapnya sehelai rumput kering; ia tertawa jika orang melemparkan lembing.

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

³⁰Sisik di perutnya seperti beling yang runcing ujungnya. Bagai alat penebah ia mengorek lumpur dan membelahnya.

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

³¹Laut dikocoknya sehingga menyerupai air mendidih; seperti panci pemasak minyak yang berbuih-buih.

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

³²Ia meninggalkan bekas tapak kaki yang bercahaya, laut diubahnya menjadi buih yang putih warnanya.

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

³³Di atas bumi tak ada tandingannya; makhluk yang tak kenal takut, itulah dia!

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

³⁴Binatang yang paling megah pun dipandangnya hina; di antara segala binatang buas, dialah raja."

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