Job 41:12-34

International Standard Version

¹² “I won’t be silent concerning his limbs,
    his mighty strength, and orderly frame.
¹³ Who can strip off his outer armor?^[a]
    Who can approach him with a bridle?
¹⁴ Who dares to open his mouth,^[b]
    since it is ringed with his terrible teeth!

¹⁵ His protective scales are his pride,
    they lie sealed tightly together.
¹⁶ Each one is so close to the other
    that not even air comes in between them.
¹⁷ Each is attached to the other,^[c]
    grasping each other so they cannot be separated.

¹⁸ “His snorting releases flashes of light;
    his eyes are like the rays^[d] of the dawn.
¹⁹ Flames blaze from his mouth;
    streams of sparking fire fly out.
²⁰ Smoke billows from his nostrils;
    like a boiling pot or burning reeds.
²¹ His breath can ignite coal;
    and flames proceed from his mouth.

²² “His neck is so powerful
    that all who meet him are terrified.
²³ There is no flaw in his body’s armor;
    it is firmly fixed on him and unbreachable.
²⁴ His heart is as strong as stone,
    it is as hard as a lower millstone.
²⁵ When he rears up, the mighty are terrified;
    they are bewildered as he thrashes about.

²⁶ “Thrusting at him with a sword won’t be effective,
    nor will spears, darts, or javelins.
²⁷ He regards iron like straw,
    and hardened bronze like a dead tree.
²⁸ Arrows won’t make him flee;
    stones from a sling are only pebbles to him.
²⁹ Clubs are like twigs;^[e]
    he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin.

³⁰ “Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds;
    he tears through muddy ground
        like a threshing sledge through grain.^[f]
31 He causes the deep to boil like water in^[g] a pot,
    and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.
³² The sea is luminescent behind him;
    his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair.

³³ “There’s nothing like him on earth;
    he was created without the ability to fear.
³⁴ He looks down on everything that is high;
    he rules over every kind^[h] of pride.”