BEHEMOTH

• Take now behemoth, whom I made as I did you;
• He eats grass, like the cattle.
• His strength is in his loins,
• His might in the muscles of his belly.
• He makes his tail stand up like a cedar;
• The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
• His bones are like tubes of bronze,
• His limbs like iron rods.
• He is the first of God's works;
• Only his Maker can draw the sword against him.
• The mountains yield him produce,
• Where all the beasts of the field play.
• He lies down beneath the lotuses,
• In the cover of the swamp reeds.
• The lotuses embower him with shade;
• The willows of the brook surround him.
• He can restrain the river from its rushing;
• He is confident the stream will gush at his command.
• Can he be taken by his eyes?
• Can his nose be pierced by hooks?

— Job 40:15–24