17. Each scale sticks tight to the next.They interlock and cannot be penetrated.
18. “When it sneezes, it flashes light!Its eyes are like the red of dawn.
19. Lightning leaps from its mouth;flames of fire flash out.
20. Smoke streams from its nostrilslike steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.
21. Its breath would kindle coals,for flames shoot from its mouth.
22. “The tremendous strength in Leviathan’s neckstrikes terror wherever it goes.
23. Its flesh is hard and firmand cannot be penetrated.
24. Its heart is hard as rock,hard as a millstone.
25. When it rises, the mighty are afraid,gripped by terror.