Quotes About Creation

His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.

He is the foremost of Godís works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby.

Can anyone capture him as he looks on, or pierce his nose with a snare?

“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?

Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

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

Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

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

Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—