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

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13 Who can strip off its outer coat?
    Who can penetrate its double coat of armor[a]?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:13 Septuagint; Hebrew double bridle

Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

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When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal.(A)

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Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

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Do not be like the horse or the mule,
    which have no understanding
but must be controlled by bit and bridle(A)
    or they will not come to you.

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28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

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28 Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(A) in your nose
    and my bit(B) in your mouth,
and I will make you return(C)
    by the way you came.’

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