Job 41:12-34

12“I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form.

13Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?

14Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!

15The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together.

16They are so close together that no air can get between them.

17Each 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.

19Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out.

20Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.

21Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.

22“The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neck strikes terror wherever it goes.

23Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated.

24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone.

25When it rises, the mighty are afraid, gripped by terror.

26No sword can stop it, no spear, dart, or javelin.

27Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood.

28Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.

29Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.

30Its 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.

32The water glistens in its wake, making the sea look white.

33Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless.

34Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts.”