Yahweh’s Challenge Continues

• 9 [fn] is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?
• 10 Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who then is he who would stand[fn]
• 11 [fn] I should repay him? Under all the heavens,[fn]
• 12 concerning its limbs or[fn] concerning the extent of its might and the gracefulness of its frame.
• 13 [fn] Who can penetrate its double harness?
• 14 the doors of its face? Its teeth all around are fearsome.
• 15 [fn] has scales of shields; it is shut up closely as with a seal.
• 16 [fn] even[fn] the air cannot come between them.
• 17 [fn] they cling together and cannot be separated.
• 18  and its eyes are[fn]
• 19  sparks of fire shoot out.
• 20  as from a kettle boiling and burning bulrushes.
• 21  and a flame comes from its mouth.
• 22  and dismay[fn] dances[fn]
• 23  it is cast on it—it will not be moved.
• 24  yes,[fn] it is cast as the lower millstone.
• 25 [fn] the mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.
• 26 with the sword does not avail, nor with the spear, the dart, or[fn]the javelin.
• It regards iron as straw,
• bronze as rotten wood.
• [fn] will not make it flee;
• sling stones are turned to stubble for it.
• Clubs are regarded as stubble,
• and it laughs at the short sword’s rattle.
• “Its underparts are shards of a potsherd;
• it moves over mud like a threshing sledge.
• It makes the deep boil like a cooking pot;
• it makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
• Behind it,[fn]
• one would think that the deep has gray hair.
• “[fn]—
• a[fn] creature without fear.
• It observes all the lofty;
• it is king[fn]