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Job 41:15-17
New English Translation
Job 41:15-17
New English Translation
15 Its back[a] has rows of shields,
shut up closely[b] together as with a seal;
16 each one is so close to the next[c]
that no air can come between them.
17 They lock tightly together, one to the next;[d]
they cling together and cannot be separated.
Footnotes
- Job 41:15 tc The MT has גַּאֲוָה (gaʾavah, “his pride”), but the LXX, Aquila, and the Vulgate all read גַּוּוֹ (gavvo, “his back”). Almost all the modern English versions follow the variant reading, speaking about “his [or its] back.”
- Job 41:15 tn Instead of צָר (tsar, “closely”) the LXX has צֹר (tsor, “stone”) to say that the seal was rock hard.
- Job 41:16 tn The expression “each one…to the next” is literally “one with one.”
- Job 41:17 tn Heb “a man with his brother.”
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