15. Its back has rows of shields,shut up closely together as with a seal;
16. each one is so close to the nextthat no air can come between them.
17. They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated.
18. Its snorting throws out flashes of light;its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.
19. Out of its mouth go flames,sparks of fire shoot forth!
20. Smoke streams from its nostrilsas from a boiling pot over burning rushes.
21. Its breath sets coals ablazeand a flame shoots from its mouth.
22. Strength lodges in its neck,and despair runs before it.
23. The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;they are firm on it, immovable.
24. Its heart is hard as rock,hard as a lower millstone.
25. When it rises up, the mighty are terrified,at its thrashing about they withdraw.
26. Whoever strikes it with a swordwill have no effect,nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.
27. It regards iron as strawand bronze as rotten wood.
28. Arrows do not make it flee;slingstones become like chaff to it.
29. A club is counted as a piece of straw;it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30. Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds,it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.