26. Whoever strikes it with a swordwill have no effect,nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.
27. It regards iron as strawand bronze as rotten wood.
28. Arrows do not make it flee;slingstones become like chaff to it.
29. A club is counted as a piece of straw;it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30. Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds,it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31. It makes the deep boil like a cauldronand stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment,