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“Think also about crocodiles. Can you catch them with a fishhook or fasten their jaws with a rope?
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Can you put ropes through their noses to control them or thrust hooks through their jaws?
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Will they plead with you to act mercifully toward them or use sweet talk in order that you will not harm them?
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Will they make an agreement with you to work for you, to be your slaves as long as they live?
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Can you make them into pets like you do birds? Can you put a leash around their necks so that your servant girls can play with them?
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Will men who partner in selling fish try to sell them in the market? Will they cut a crocodile up into pieces and sell the meat?
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Can you pierce crocodiles through their hides by throwing fishing spears at them? Can you pierce their heads with a harpoon?
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If you grab one of them with your hands, it will give you a battle that you will never forget, and you will never try to do it again!
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It is useless to even hope to subdue them. Anyone who tries to subdue one of them will fall to the ground out of fear.
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No one dares to make a crocodile angry. So, since I am much more powerful than they are, who would dare to cause me to be angry?
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Also, everything on the earth is mine. Therefore, no one is able to give anything to me and require me to pay money for it!
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I will tell you about how strong crocodiles’ legs are and how strong their well formed bodies are.
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Can anyone strip off their hides? Can anyone pierce through their double layer of armor?
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Can anyone pry open their jaws, which have terrible teeth in them?
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They have rows of scales on their back which are as hard as rock.
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The scales are very close together; not even air can get between them.
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The scales are joined very closely to each other, and they cannot be separated.
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When crocodiles sneeze, the tiny drops of water that come out of their noses sparkle in the sunlight. Their eyes are red like the rising sun.
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It is as though sparks of fire poured out of their mouths.
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Smoke pours out of their nostrils as steam comes out of a pot that is put over a very, very hot fire.
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Their breath can cause coals to blaze and flames to shoot out from their mouths.
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Their necks are very strong; wherever they go, they make people very afraid.
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The folds in their flesh are very close together and are very hard.
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They are fearless because the inner parts of their bodies are as hard as a rock, as hard as the lower millstone on which people grind grain.
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When they rise up, they cause even very strong people to be terrified. As a result, people fall back.
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People cannot injure them with swords; spears, arrows, or other weapons with sharp points cannot injure them, either.
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They certainly are not afraid of weapons made of straw or rotten wood, but they are not even afraid of weapons made of iron or bronze!
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Shooting arrows at them does not cause them to run away. Hurling stones at them from a sling is like hurling bits of chaff at them.
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They are not afraid of clubs anymore than they would be afraid of men throwing bits of straw at them, and they laugh when they hear a spear coming at them.
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Their bellies are covered with scales that are as sharp as broken pieces of pottery. When they drag themselves through the mud, their bellies tear up the ground like a plow.
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They stir up the water and cause it to foam as they churn through it.
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As they go through the water, their wakes glisten. People who see it would think that the foam had become white hair.
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There are no creatures on earth that I have created as fearless as crocodiles.
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They are the proudest of all the creatures; they are like kings over all the other wild animals.”
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