Its snorting throws out flashes of light. Its eyes are like the rays of dawn. Flames stream from its mouth. Sparks of fire shoot out. Its breath sets coals ablaze and flames dart from its mouth. Strength resides in its neck. Dismay goes before it.

The folds of its flesh are tightly joined. They are firm and immovable.

Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

When it rises up, the mighty are terrified. They retreat before it's thrashing.

The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.

Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood. Arrows do not make it flee. Slingstones are like chafed to it.

A club seems to butt a piece of straw. It laughs at the rattling of the lance. Its undersides are

jagged pot shirts, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. It makes the

depths churn like a boiling cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment. It leaves a

glistening wake behind it. One would think the deep had white hair. Nothing on earth is equal, a creature without fear.

The Bible, New International Version.

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