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One presses so close to the next
    that no air can pass between them.
Each is so joined, one to another,
    that they hold fast and cannot be separated.
10 “When it sneezes, sprays of light[a] flash forth,
    and its eyes are like the rays of the dawn.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:10 Light: a vapor that gleams in the light of the sun. Its eyes: in Egyptian hieroglyphics, the irridescent red in the eye of the crocodile symbolizes the dawn.

If you lay a hand on it,
    you will remember the struggle and never do it again!(A)
Any hope of subduing it is false;
    the mere sight of it is overpowering.(B)
10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it.(C)
    Who then is able to stand against me?(D)

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