Job 41:8-10

New Catholic Bible

⁸One presses so close to the next
    that no air can pass between them.
⁹Each is so joined, one to another,
    that they hold fast and cannot be separated.
¹⁰“When it sneezes, sprays of light^[a] flash forth,
    and its eyes are like the rays of the dawn.

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Footnotes

Job 41:10 Light: a vapor that gleams in the light of the sun. Its eyes: in Egyptian hieroglyphics, the irridescent red in the eye of the crocodile symbolizes the dawn.

Job 41:8-10

New International Version

⁸If you lay a hand on it,
    you will remember the struggle and never do it again!^(A)
⁹Any hope of subduing it is false;
    the mere sight of it is overpowering.^(B)
¹⁰No one is fierce enough to rouse it.^(C)
    Who then is able to stand against me?^(D)

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Job 41:8-10

English Standard Version

⁸Lay your hands on him;
    remember the battle—you will not do it again!
⁹^[a] Behold, the hope of a man is false;
    he is laid low even at the sight of him.
¹⁰No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.
    Who then is he who can stand before me?