100 Bible Verses about Leviathan

Job 41:1-34 ESV / 8,847 helpful votes

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? ...

Isaiah 27:1 ESV / 8,405 helpful votes

In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Psalm 74:14 ESV / 7,386 helpful votes

You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Job 41:1 ESV / 7,065 helpful votes

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?

Psalm 104:26 ESV / 6,791 helpful votes

There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

Job 3:8 ESV / 6,250 helpful votes

Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.

Job 41:10 ESV / 3,353 helpful votes

No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

Job 40:15-24 ESV / 2,916 helpful votes

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron. “He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword! ...

Job 40:15 ESV / 2,537 helpful votes

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.

Job 40:1-24 ESV / 2,536 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Job: “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.” Then Job answered the Lord and said: “Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.” ...

Psalm 74:13-14 ESV / 2,305 helpful votes

You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters. You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Job 41:31 ESV / 2,266 helpful votes

He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

Job 41:18 ESV / 2,199 helpful votes

His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

Revelation 20:2 ESV / 2,175 helpful votes

And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Psalm 18:8 ESV / 2,143 helpful votes

Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.

Job 40:1-41:34 ESV / 1,988 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Job: “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.” Then Job answered the Lord and said: “Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.” ...

Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 1,951 helpful votes

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ...

Job 41:34 ESV / 1,927 helpful votes

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

Psalm 74:13 ESV / 1,874 helpful votes

You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.

Psalm 104:25-26 ESV / 1,730 helpful votes

Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

Job 41:5 ESV / 1,694 helpful votes

Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?

Job 41:15 ESV / 1,686 helpful votes

His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.

Psalm 74:1-23 ESV / 1,685 helpful votes

A Maskil of Asaph. O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt. Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary! Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs. They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees. ...

Genesis 1:21 ESV / 1,646 helpful votes

So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Psalm 104:1-35 ESV / 1,598 helpful votes

Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. ...

Job 41:33 ESV / 1,579 helpful votes

On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 1,494 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Psalm 74:12-14 ESV / 1,493 helpful votes

Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters. You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 1,467 helpful votes

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Job 41:2 ESV / 1,457 helpful votes

Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Job 40:17 ESV / 1,415 helpful votes

He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

Job 41:12 ESV / 1,386 helpful votes

“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.

Job 41:14 ESV / 1,362 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 51:9 ESV / 1,334 helpful votes

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?

John 8:44 ESV / 1,304 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Job 41:7 ESV / 1,298 helpful votes

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

Job 41:8 ESV / 1,295 helpful votes

Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again!

Revelation 13:1 ESV / 1,291 helpful votes

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.

Job 41:24 ESV / 1,276 helpful votes

His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.

Job 42:1-17 ESV / 1,262 helpful votes

Then Job answered the Lord and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; ...

Proverbs 21:4 ESV / 1,256 helpful votes

Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

Job 41:13 ESV / 1,247 helpful votes

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?

Job 7:12 ESV / 1,244 helpful votes

Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

Job 41:26 ESV / 1,236 helpful votes

Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 1,228 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Job 41:30 ESV / 1,220 helpful votes

His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

Job 41:27 ESV / 1,210 helpful votes

He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

Job 41:22 ESV / 1,191 helpful votes

In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.

Job 41:4 ESV / 1,183 helpful votes

Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 1,178 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Job 41:19 ESV / 1,175 helpful votes

Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.

Job 41:11 ESV / 1,175 helpful votes

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

Job 41:25 ESV / 1,169 helpful votes

When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.

Job 41:9 ESV / 1,149 helpful votes

Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him.

Job 41:20 ESV / 1,144 helpful votes

Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

Job 41:29 ESV / 1,135 helpful votes

Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

Job 41:21 ESV / 1,124 helpful votes

His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,116 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Job 41:3 ESV / 1,108 helpful votes

Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?

Daniel 10:6 ESV / 1,099 helpful votes

His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.

Isaiah 14:12-14 ESV / 1,099 helpful votes

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 1,084 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Job 41:28 ESV / 1,077 helpful votes

The arrow cannot make him flee; for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.

Ezekiel 28:17 ESV / 1,074 helpful votes

Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.

Revelation 13:4 ESV / 1,073 helpful votes

And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”

Psalm 92:12 ESV / 1,051 helpful votes

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Job 40:19 ESV / 1,050 helpful votes

“He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!

Ezekiel 31:3 ESV / 1,045 helpful votes

Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds.

Ezekiel 32:2 ESV / 1,035 helpful votes

“Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 1,024 helpful votes

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Job 26:12 ESV / 986 helpful votes

By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

Revelation 12:3 ESV / 976 helpful votes

And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.

Job 40:24 ESV / 936 helpful votes

Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?

Ephesians 2:1-3 ESV / 915 helpful votes

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Ezekiel 29:3 ESV / 909 helpful votes

Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’

Job 1:1-22 ESV / 874 helpful votes

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. ...

Job 39:1-30 ESV / 849 helpful votes

“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does? Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth, when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young? Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them. “Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, ...

Isaiah 27:1-13 ESV / 837 helpful votes

In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea. In that day, “A pleasant vineyard, sing of it! I, the Lord, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day; I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together. Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me.” ...

Job 40:16 ESV / 829 helpful votes

Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.

Psalm 104:25 ESV / 823 helpful votes

Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.

Exodus 20:11 ESV / 785 helpful votes

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Psalm 91:5 ESV / 776 helpful votes

You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

Isaiah 30:7 ESV / 719 helpful votes

Egypt's help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her “Rahab who sits still.”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 699 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Job 40:18 ESV / 699 helpful votes

His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.

Psalm 87:4 ESV / 685 helpful votes

Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush— “This one was born there,” they say.

Job 40:12 ESV / 678 helpful votes

Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

Job 40:22 ESV / 646 helpful votes

For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.

Job 40:21 ESV / 646 helpful votes

Under the lotus plants he lies, in the shelter of the reeds and in the marsh.

Isaiah 65:25 ESV / 624 helpful votes

The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 29:3-5 ESV / 613 helpful votes

Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’ I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales; and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams, with all the fish of your streams that stick to your scales. And I will cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall on the open field, and not be brought together or gathered. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I give you as food.

Job 40:11 ESV / 573 helpful votes

Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 559 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Isaiah 65:12 ESV / 545 helpful votes

I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes and chose what I did not delight in.”

Revelation 16:13 ESV / 520 helpful votes

And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.

Revelation 13:2 ESV / 506 helpful votes

And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.

Revelation 13:11 ESV / 505 helpful votes

Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.

Psalm 89:10 ESV / 502 helpful votes

You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 475 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ezekiel 17:22 ESV / 467 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord God: “I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

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