1 41:10He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

2 41:11Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

3 41:12I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

4 41:13Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

5 41:14Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

6 41:15His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

7 41:16One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

8 41:17They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.

9 41:18His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

10 41:19Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

11 41:20Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.

12 41:21His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

13 41:22Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him.

14 41:23The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved.

15 41:24His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.

16 41:25When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

17 41:26The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

18 41:27Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

19 41:28The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

20 41:29A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

21 41:30Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

22 41:31The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

23 41:32After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.

24 41:33On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.