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Job 40:12

He setteth up his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his testicles are wrapped together.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Stringit caudam suam quasi cedrum ; nervi testiculorum ejus perplexi sunt.
Septuagint (Swete)
ἔστησεν οὐρὰν ὡς κυπάρισσον, τὰ δὲ νεῦρα αὐτοῦ συμπέπλεκται·
Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 40:17
יַחְפֹּ֣ץ זְנָב֣וֹ כְמוֹ אָ֑רֶז גִּידֵ֖י פחדו יְשֹׂרָֽגוּ

Haydock's commentary

Tail, which is very small, and without hair. (Calmet)

Vavassor rather thinks "the trunk" is meant. (Du Hamel)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.