Quotes about Leviathan

May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain, you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against them in a surf of green surges.

Mingling their mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness.