Ayub 41:15

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Hatinya tetap bagaikan batu, tetap seperti batu kisaran yang di bawah.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(41-6) Punggungnya adalah perisai-perisai yang bersusun, terlekat rapat seperti meterai.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
(41-6) Punggungnya adalah perisai-perisai yang bersusun, terlekat rapat seperti meterai.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

scales: Heb. strong pieces of shields

pride: Jeremiah 9:23

a close: Revelation 5:2, Revelation 5:3, Revelation 5:5

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal. This is notoriously true of the crocodile, whose back and tail are covered with scales, which are in a measure impenetrable and invincible: which all writers concerning it, and travellers that have seen it, agree in; :-; but the skin of the whale is smooth; the outward skin is thin, like parchment, and is easily pulled off with the hand; and its under skin, though an inch thick, is never stiff nor tough, but soft d: though, if Nearchus e is to be credited, he reports, that one was seen fifty cubits long, with a scaly skin all over it a cubit thick; and such, it is said, were by a storm brought into our river Trent some years ago, and cast ashore, which had scales upon their backs very hard, as large and thick as one of our shillings f. But Aben Ezra interprets this of the teeth of the leviathan, and in which he is followed by Hasaeus; which are strong like a shield, as the words used signify; so Mr. Broughton,

"the strong shields have pride:''

but then this is as applicable, or more so, to the scales of the crocodile; which are so close as if they were sealed together, and are like a shield, its defence, and in which it prides itself.

d Voyage to Spitzbergen, p. 146, 147, 152. e Apud Arrian. in Indicis. f Vid. Wesley's Dissertations on Job, dissert. 38. p. 290.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His scales are his pride - Margin, “strong pieces of shields.” The literal translation of this would be, “Pride, the strong of shields;” that is, the strong shields. There can be no doubt that there is reference to the scales of the animal, as having a resemblance to strong shields laid close to each other. But there is considerable variety of opinion as to its meaning. Umbreit and Prof. Lee take the word here rendered “pride” (גאוה gê'voh) to be the same as (גוה gêvâh), “back,” and then the meaning would be that his back was armed as with a shield - referring, as Prof. Lee supposes, to the dorsal fin of the whale. But there is no necessity for this supposition, and it cannot be denied that it is somewhat forced. The “connection” requires that we should understand it, not of the dorsal fin, but of the scales; for a description immediately follows in continuation of this, which will by no means apply to the fin. The obvious and proper meaning is, that the pride or glory of the animal - that on which his safety depended, and which was the most remarkable thing about him - was his “scales,” which were laid together like firm and compact shields, so that nothing could penetrate them. This description accords better with the crocodile than with any other animal. It is covered with scales, “which are so hard as to resist a musket-ball.” “Ed. Ency.” The description cannot be applied to a whale, which has no scales; and accordingly Prof. Lee supposes that the reference in this verse and the two following is not to the “scales,” but to the “teeth,” and to “the setting in of the dorsal fin!”

Shut up together - Made close or compact.

As with a close seal - As if they had been sealed with wax, so that no air could come between them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 41:15. His scales are his pride — They are impenetrable, as we have already seen.