Job 41:18-34 - When This Monster Sneezes
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“His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the [reddish] eyelids of the dawn.
“Out of his mouth go burning torches,
And sparks of fire leap out.
“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and [as from] burning rushes.
“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
“In Leviathan’s neck resides strength,
And dismay and terror dance before him.
“The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm on him and immobile [when he moves].
“His heart is as hard as a stone,
Indeed, as solid as a lower millstone.
“When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor [does] the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
“He considers iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.
“The arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are treated as stubble by him.
“Clubs [also] are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin.
“His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery;
He moves across and spreads out [grooves] like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks).
“He makes the deep water boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a [foaming] pot of ointment.
“Behind him he makes a shining wake;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired [with foam].
“Upon earth there is nothing like him—no equal exists,
A creature made without fear.
“He looks on everything that is high [without terror];
He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job,