14. Who could pry open its jaws?For its teeth are terrible!
15. The scales on its back are like rows of shieldstightly sealed together.
16. They are so close togetherthat no air can get between them.
17. Each scale sticks tight to the next.They interlock and cannot be penetrated.
18. “When it sneezes, it flashes light!Its eyes are like the red of dawn.
19. Lightning leaps from its mouth;flames of fire flash out.
20. Smoke streams from its nostrilslike steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.
21. Its breath would kindle coals,for flames shoot from its mouth.
22. “The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neckstrikes terror wherever it goes.
23. Its flesh is hard and firmand cannot be penetrated.
24. Its heart is hard as rock,hard as a millstone.
25. When it rises, the mighty are afraid,gripped by terror.
26. No sword can stop it,no spear, dart, or javelin.
27. Iron is nothing but straw to that creature,and bronze is like rotten wood.
28. Arrows cannot make it flee.Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.
29. Clubs are like a blade of grass,and it laughs at the swish of javelins.
30. Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass.It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.
31. “Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion.It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment.
32. The water glistens in its wake,making the sea look white.
33. Nothing on earth is its equal,no other creature so fearless.