1Behold, his expectation was deceived: even at his mere sight is he cast down. 2None is so daring that he would stir him up: and who is there that will stand up before me? 3Who hath shown me favor, that I should repay him! whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.— 4I will not conceal the account of his limbs, nor the relation of his might, nor the grace of his proportion. 5Who hath ever laid open the front of his garment? or who can penetrate into his double row of teeth? 6Who hath opened the doors of his face? all round about his teeth abideth terror. 7What pride is there in his strong shields; he is locked up as with a close seal. 8One is joined to another; and no breath can come between them. 9They are fitted closely one to another: they are interlocked, that they cannot be severed. 10From his sneezing there beameth forth a light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning-dawn. 11Out of his mouth issue burning torches, sparks of fire escape therefrom. 12Out of his nostrils cometh forth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. 13His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh out of his mouth. 14In his neck abideth strength, and before him danceth terror joyfully. 15The flakes of his flesh are fitted closely together: they are as molten metal on him, immovable. 16His heart is firm like a stone: yea, as firm as the nether millstone. 17At his lifting himself up the mighty are terrified: the waves also are lessened. 18If one overtake him with the sword, it cannot hold; nor the spear, the dart, and armor. 19He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. 20The child of the bow cannot make him flee: into stubble are slingstones changed unto him. 21Clubs are esteemed as stubble, and he laugheth at the whirring of the lance. 22Beneath him are sharp-pointed potsherds, he spreadeth out, as it were, a threshing-roller upon the mire. 23He causeth the deep to boil like a pot: he rendereth the sea like an apothecary’s mixture. 24Behind him he causeth his pathway to shine, so that men esteem the deep to be hoary. 25There is none upon earth that ruleth over him, who is made to be without dread. 26He looketh upon all that is high: he is the king over all the ravenous beasts. 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34