Job 41:24-34 ▼

24 “His heart is as hard as a stone, Indeed, as solid as a lower millstone.

25 “When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

26 “The sword that reaches him cannot avail, Nor [does] the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

27 “He considers iron as straw, Bronze as rotten wood.

28 “The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones are treated as stubble by him.

29 “Clubs [also] are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin.

30 “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).

31 “He makes the deep water boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a [foaming] pot of ointment.

32 “Behind him he makes a shining wake; One would think the deep to be gray-haired [with foam].

33 “Upon earth there is nothing like him—no equal exists, A creature made without fear.

34 “He looks on everything that is high [without terror]; He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”