Job 40 and 41 in particular. 16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The Bible also speaks of a fire breathing animal called Leviathan in Job 41 .
Human history is filled with legends and literature about dragons.
Nebucchadnezzar built the City of Babylon with carvings of dragons all over the walls of the city and took the image of the dragon as his seal. Both the ancient Greeks and the Romans have the dragon in mythologies. In third century AD a town in Libya was victimized by a dragon and Saint George arrived and killed the dragon. European folklore is filled with stories of dragons. In the Nibelungenlied , Siegfried kills a dragon and the same story line takes place in Beowulf.