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Job 41:17-19
New English Translation
Job 41:17-19
New English Translation
17 They lock tightly together, one to the next;[a]
they cling together and cannot be separated.
18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the red glow[b] of dawn.
19 Out of its mouth go flames,[c]
sparks of fire shoot forth!
Footnotes
- Job 41:17 tn Heb “a man with his brother.”
- Job 41:18 tn Heb “the eyelids,” but it represents the early beams of the dawn as the cover of night lifts.
- Job 41:19 sn For the animal, the image is that of pent-up breath with water in a hot steam jet coming from its mouth, like a stream of fire in the rays of the sun. The language is hyperbolic, probably to reflect the pagan ideas of the dragon of the deep in a polemical way—they feared it as a fire breathing monster, but in reality it might have been a steamy crocodile.
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