1 “See, his hope is wrong, he is laid low, even the sight of him.
2 Is he not fierce when he is roused? Who then is able to stand before Me?
3 Who has confronted Me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to Me.
4 “I will not keep silent about his limbs, or his might or the grace of his arrangement.
5 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who can penetrate his double armor?
6 Who can open the doors of his face, ringed with fearsome teeth?
7 His rows of shields are his pride, shut up closely as with tight seal;
8 each so close to the next, that no air can pass between.
9 They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
10 “He sneezes out flashes of light; his eyes are like the eyelids of dawn.
11 Out of his mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot out.
12 Smoke pours from his nostrils, as a boiling pot over burning reeds.
13 His breath sets coals ablaze and flames dart from his mouth.
14 “Strength resides in his neck; dismay runs before him.
15 The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on him, immovable.
16 His heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
17 “When he rises up, the mighty are afraid; at his crashing they retreat.
18 A sword that reaches him has no effect— nor with a spear, dart, or javelin.
19 He regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.
20 Arrows do not make him flee; sling stones become like chaff to him.
21 A club is regarded as stubble; he laughs at the rattling 0f a lance.
22 “His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail like a threshing sledge in mud.
23 He makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
24 He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair.
25 Nothing on dry land is his equal— a creature without fear.
26 He sees every haughty thing; he is king over all who are proud.”