crocodile. Weapons of iron and bronze break as easily as straw and wood (41:26–29). The hide of the crocodile’s underside is jagged like the pointed edges of broken pottery; and when he walks across mud, the sharp scales on his underside leave marks like those left by a threshing sledge (41:30). Swimming in a river or sea, the crocodile churns up the water like a boiling pot and like “a jar of ointment,” meaning the foam on the top of the ingredients of an ointment being boiled or stirred by an apothecary