Job 40:24
Can anyone capture him as he looks on, or pierce his nose with a snare?
BSB
ASV
Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?
KJV
He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
He taketh it with his eyes - He looks at the sweeping tide, and defies it. His nose pierceth through snares - If fences of strong stakes be made in order to restrain him, or prevent him from passing certain boundaries, he tears them in pieces with his teeth; or, by pressing his nose against them, breaks them off. If other parts of the description would answer, this might well apply to the elephant, the nose here meaning the proboscis, with which he can split trees, or even tear them up from the roots!
On the other hand, Job 40:21, 22 are characteristic of the amphibious river horse. So leviathan (the twisting animal), Job 41:1, is a generalized term for cetacea, pythons, saurians of the neighboring seas and rivers, including the crocodile, which is the most prominent, and is often associated with the river horse by old writers.