he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;

Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.

that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!

If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.