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Job 38:6-11
What supports its foundations? Or who laid its cornerstonewhile the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,when I made the clouds its garment and total darkness its blanket,when I determined its boundaries and put its bars and doors in place,when I declared,“ You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here”?
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Job 41:1-34
Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie his tongue down with a rope?Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?Will he beg you for mercy or speak softly to you?Will he make a covenant with you so that you can take him as a slave forever?Can you play with him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?Will traders bargain for him or divide him among the merchants?Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?Lay a hand on him. You will remember the battle and never repeat it!Any hope of capturing him proves false. Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan; who then can stand against me?Who confronted me, that I should repay him? Everything under heaven belongs to me.I cannot be silent about his limbs, his power, and his graceful proportions.Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?Who can open his jaws, surrounded by those terrifying teeth?His pride is in his rows of scales, closely sealed together.One scale is so close to another that no air can pass between them.They are joined to one another, so closely connected they cannot be separated.His snorting flashes with light, while his eyes are like the rays of dawn.Flaming torches shoot from his mouth; fiery sparks fly out!Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth.Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances before him.The folds of his flesh are joined together, solid as metal and immovable.His heart is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!When Leviathan rises, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw because of his thrashing.The sword that reaches him will have no effect, nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him.A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like an ointment jar.He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had gray hair!He has no equal on earth— a creature devoid of fear!He surveys everything that is haughty; he is king over all the proud beasts.
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Ezekiel 32:2-3
“ Son of man, lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,‘ You compare yourself to a lion of the nations, but you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churn up the waters with your feet, and muddy the rivers.“‘ This is what the Lord GOD says: I will spread my net over you with an assembly of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my net.
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Job 7:17
What is a mere human, that you think so highly of him and pay so much attention to him?
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Lamentations 3:7
He has walled me in so I cannot get out; he has weighed me down with chains.
