13 Who can strip off its outer coat?
    Who can penetrate its double coat of armor[a]?(A)
14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth,(B)
    ringed about with fearsome teeth?
15 Its back has[b] rows of shields
    tightly sealed together;(C)
16 each is so close to the next
    that no air can pass between.
17 They are joined fast to one another;
    they cling together and cannot be parted.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:13 Septuagint; Hebrew double bridle
  2. Job 41:15 Or Its pride is its

13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

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