14. Who can open the doors of its face? Its teeth all around are fearsome.
15. Its back has scales of shields; it is shut up closely as with a seal.
16. They are close to one another— even the air cannot come between them.
17. They are joined one to another; they cling together and cannot be separated.
18. “Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes are red like dawn.
19. Torches go from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20. Smoke comes from its nostrils as from a kettle boiling and burning bulrushes.
21. Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth.
22. “Strength abides in its neck, and dismay dances before it.
23. Its flesh’s folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it—it will not be moved.
24. Its heart is cast as stone; yes, it is cast as the lower millstone.
25. When it raises itself, the mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.
26. Reaching it with the sword does not avail, nor with the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27. It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.
28. An arrow will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.
29. Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at the short sword’s rattle.
30. “Its underparts are shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud like a threshing sledge.
31. It makes the deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32. Behind it, it leaves a glistening wake; one would think that the deep has gray hair.