the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Job 41:30
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His undersides are jagged potsherds,spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, Leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
The underside of its body is like broken pieces of pottery. It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing board.
Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.
"His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery; He moves across and spreads out [grooves] like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks).
"His underparts are like sharp pieces of pottery; He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mud.
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, Leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre.
Its underparts are like sharp potsherds;It spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.
His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
As it crawls through the mud, its sharp and spiny hide tears the ground apart.
class="poetry"> "Look, any hope [of capturing him] is futile — one would fall prostrate at the very sight of him. No one is fierce enough to rouse him, so who can stand up to me? Who has given me anything and made me pay it back? Everything belongs to me under all of heaven. "I have more to say about his limbs, his strong talk, and his matchless strength. Who can strip off his [scaly] garment? Who can enter his jaws? Who can pry open the doors of his face, so close to his terrible teeth? "His pride is his rows of scales, tightly sealed together — one is so close to the next that no air can come between them; they are stuck one to another, interlocked and impervious. "When he sneezes, light flashes out; his eyes are like the shimmer of dawn. From his mouth go fiery torches, and sparks come flying out. His nostrils belch steam like a caldron boiling on the fire. His breath sets coals ablaze; flames pour from his mouth. "Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances ahead of him [as he goes]. The layers of his flesh stick together; they are firm on him, immovable. His heart is as hard as a stone, yes, hard as a lower millstone. When he rears himself up, the gods are afraid, beside themselves in despair. "If a sword touches him, it won't stick; neither will a spear, or a dart, or a lance. He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. An arrow can't make him flee; for him, slingstones are so much chaff. Clubs count as hay, and he laughs at a quivering javelin. His belly is as sharp as fragments of pottery, so he moves across the mud like a threshing-sledge. "He makes the depths seethe like a pot, he makes the sea [boil] like a perfume kettle. He leaves a shining wake behind him, making the deep seem to have white hair. "On earth there is nothing like him, a creature without fear. He looks straight at all high things. He is king over all proud beasts."
His under parts are sharp potsherds: he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
The skin on his belly is like sharp pieces of broken pottery. He leaves tracks in the mud like a threshing board.
The bow cannot make him flee; he treats slingstones as stubble.
The scales on his belly are like jagged pieces of pottery; they tear up the muddy ground like a threshing sledge.
"Its underparts are shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud like a threshing sledge.
Points of potsherds are under him; he spreads sharp marks on the mire.
He treadeth the golde in the myre like ye sharpe potsherdes.
His underparts are like sharp potsherds: He spreadeth as it were a threshing-wain upon the mire.
Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.
Sharpe stones are vnder him: he spreadeth sharpe pointed things vpon the mire.
Sharpe stones are vnder him lyke potsheardes, and he lyeth vpon sharpe thinges as vpon the soft myre.
His underparts are like sharp potsherds: he spreadeth as it were a threshing wain upon the mire.
The beemys of the sunne schulen be vndur hym; and he schal strewe to hym silf gold as cley.
His underparts are [like] sharp potsherds: He spreads [as it were] a threshing-wain on the mire.
Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
His undersides are like sharp potsherds; He spreads pointed marks in the mire.
Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.
The parts under him are like sharp pieces of a pot. He spreads out like a grain crusher on the mud.
Its underparts are like sharp potsherds; it spreads itself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
His underparts, are points of potsherd, a pointed threshing roller spreadeth out upon the slime:
(41-21) The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
Under him [are] sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.
"His underparts are like sharp potsherds; He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Sharp stones: Heb. Sharp pieces of potsherd
he: So hard and impenetrable are his scales, that splinters of flint are the same to him as the softest reeds.
Cross-References
And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favoured as at the beginning. So I awoke.
And the seven lean and ill-favoured kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine.
And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.'
And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said; and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
And the famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.
And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him: 'Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise thee, and consider what answer I shall return to Him that sent Me.'
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said unto Ahab: 'As the LORD, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.'
Now Elisha had spoken unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying: 'Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn; for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.'
And He called a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Sharp stones [are] under him,.... And yet give him no pain nor uneasiness;
he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire; and makes his bed of them and lies upon them; as sharp stones, as before, shells of fishes, broken pieces of darts, arrows, and javelins thrown at him, which fall around him: this does not so well agree with the crocodile, the skin of whose belly is soft and thin; wherefore dolphins plunge under it and cut it with a thorn, as Pliny h relates, or with spiny fins i; but with the whale, which lies among hard rocks and sharp stones, and large cutting pieces of ice, as in the northern seas.
h Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 25. i Sandys's Travels, l. 2. p. 78.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Sharp stones are under him - Margin, as in Hebrew, “pieces of pot sherd.” The Hebrew word (חדוד chaddûd), means “sharp, pointed”; and the phrase used here means “the sharp points of a potsherd,” or broken pieces of earthenware. The reference is, undoubtedly, to the scales of the animal, which were rough and pointed, like the broken pieces of earthenware. This description would not agree with the whale, and indeed will accord with no other animal so well as with the crocodile. The meaning is, that the under parts of his body, with which he rests upon the mire, are made up of sharp, pointed things, like broken pottery.
He spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire - That is, when he rests or stretches himself on the mud or slime of the bank of the river. The word used here and rendered “sharp pointed things” (חרוץ chârûts) means properly something “cut in;” then something sharpened or pointed; and is used to denote “a threshing sledge;” see this instrument described in Isaiah 28:27-28, note; Isaiah 41:15, note. It is not certain, however, that there is any allusion here to that instrument. It is rather to anything that is rough or pointed, and refers to the lower part of the animal as having this character. The Vulgate renders this, “Beneath him are the rays of the sun, and he reposeth on gold as on clay.” Dr. Harris, Dr. Good, and Prof. Lee, suppose it refers to what the animal lies on, meaning that he lies on splinters of rock and broken stone with as much readiness and ease as if it were clay. But the above seems to me to be the true interpretation. It is that of Gesenius, Rosenmuller, and Umbreit. Grotius understands it as meaning that the weapons thrown at him lie around him like broken pieces of pottery.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 41:30. Sharp stones are under him — So hard and impenetrable are his scales, that splinters of flint are the same to him as the softest reeds.