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29 If you hit it with a heavy stick,
    that hurts it no more than a piece of straw.
If you throw a spear at it,
    it laughs!
30 Its stomach has sharp pieces,
    like bits of a pot that someone has broken.
When it moves along,
    it ploughs the soil under it.
31 When it swims in the deep water of the sea,
    the water seems to boil.
It makes big waves,
    like oil that is boiling in a pot.

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29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw;(A)
    it laughs(B) at the rattling of the lance.
30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
    leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.(C)
31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron(D)
    and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.(E)

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