New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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7 note note Can you fill his skin with harpoons
or his head with fish-hooks?
8 If ever you lift your hand against him,
think of the struggle that awaits you, and let be.
9 note No, such a man is in desperate case,
hurled headlong at the very sight of him.
10 How fierce he is when he is roused!
Who is there to stand up to him note?
11 Who has ever attacked him note unscathed note?
Not a man note under the wide heaven.
12 I will not pass over in silence his limbs,
his prowess and the grace of his proportions.
13 Who has ever undone his outer garment
or penetrated his doublet of hide?
14 Who has ever opened the portals of his face?
for there is terror in his arching teeth.
15 His back note is row upon row of shields,
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enclosed in a wall note of flints;
16 one presses so close on the other
that air cannot pass between them,
17 each so firmly clamped to its neighbour
that they hold and cannot spring apart.
18 His sneezing sends out sprays of light,
and his eyes gleam like the shimmer of dawn. note
19 Firebrands shoot from his mouth,
and sparks come streaming out;
20 his nostrils pour forth smoke
like a cauldron on a fire blown to full heat. note
21 His breath sets burning coals ablaze,
and flames flash from his mouth.
22 Strength is lodged in his neck,
and untiring energy dances ahead of him.
23 Close knit is his underbelly,
no pressure will make it yield.
24 His heart is firm as a rock,
firm as the nether millstone.
25 When he raises himself, strong men note take fright,
bewildered at the lashings of his tail.
26 Sword or spear, dagger or javelin,
if they touch him, they have no effect.
27 Iron he counts as straw,
and bronze as rotting wood.
28 No arrow can pierce him,
and for him sling-stones are turned into chaff;
29 to him a club is a mere reed, note
and he laughs at the swish of the sabre.
30 Armoured beneath with jagged sherds,
he sprawls on the mud like a threshing-sledge.
31 He makes the deep water boil like a cauldron,
he whips up the lake like ointment in a mixing-bowl.
32 He leaves a shining trail behind him,
and the great river is like white hair in his wake.
33 He has no equal on earth;
for he is made quite without fear.
34 He looks down on all creatures, even the highest;
he is king over all proud beasts.
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New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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