41:14 Who can open the doors of its mouth? 1
Its teeth all around are fearsome.
41:15 Its back 2 has rows of shields,
shut up closely 3 together as with a seal;
41:16 each one is so close to the next 4
that no air can come between them.
41:17 They lock tightly together, one to the next; 5
they cling together and cannot be separated.
41:18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the red glow 6 of dawn.
41:19 Out of its mouth go flames, 7
sparks of fire shoot forth!
41:20 Smoke streams from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burning 8 rushes.
41:21 Its breath sets coals ablaze
and a flame shoots from its mouth.
41:22 Strength lodges in its neck,
and despair 9 runs before it.
41:23 The folds 10 of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm on it, immovable. 11
41:24 Its heart 12 is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.
41:25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified,
at its thrashing about they withdraw. 13
41:26 Whoever strikes it with a sword 14
will have no effect, 15
nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.
41:27 It regards iron as straw
and bronze as rotten wood.
41:28 Arrows 16 do not make it flee;
slingstones become like chaff to it.
41:29 A club is counted 17 as a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
41:30 Its underparts 18 are the sharp points of potsherds,
it leaves its mark in the mud
like a threshing sledge. 19
41:31 It makes the deep boil like a cauldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, 20
41:32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had a head of white hair.
41:33 The likes of it is not on earth,
a creature 21 without fear.
41:34 It looks on every haughty being;
it is king over all that are proud.” 22