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41:1  “Look, any hope [of capturing him] is futile — one would fall prostrate at the very sight of him.
41:2  No one is fierce enough to rouse him, so who can stand up to me?
41:3  Who has given me anything and made me pay it back? Everything belongs to me under all of heaven.
41:4  “I have more to say about his limbs, his strong talk, and his matchless strength.
41:5  Who can strip off his [scaly] garment? Who can enter his jaws?
41:6  Who can pry open the doors of his face, so close to his terrible teeth?
41:7  “His pride is his rows of scales, tightly sealed together —
41:8  one is so close to the next that no air can come between them;
41:9  they are stuck one to another, interlocked and impervious.
41:10  “When he sneezes, light flashes out; his eyes are like the shimmer of dawn.
41:11  From his mouth go fiery torches, and sparks come flying out.
41:12  His nostrils belch steam like a caldron boiling on the fire.
41:13  His breath sets coals ablaze; flames pour from his mouth.
41:14  “Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances ahead of him [as he goes].
41:15  The layers of his flesh stick together; they are firm on him, immovable.
41:16  His heart is as hard as a stone, yes, hard as a lower millstone.
41:17  When he rears himself up, the gods are afraid, beside themselves in despair.
41:18  “If a sword touches him, it won’t stick; neither will a spear, or a dart, or a lance.
41:19  He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
41:20  An arrow can’t make him flee; for him, slingstones are so much chaff.
41:21  Clubs count as hay, and he laughs at a quivering javelin.
41:22  His belly is as sharp as fragments of pottery, so he moves across the mud like a threshing-sledge.
41:23  “He makes the depths seethe like a pot, he makes the sea [boil] like a perfume kettle.
41:24  He leaves a shining wake behind him, making the deep seem to have white hair.
41:25  “On earth there is nothing like him, a creature without fear.
41:26  He looks straight at all high things. He is king over all proud beasts.”