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Job 40:13

His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Ossa ejus velut fistulæ æris ; cartilago illius quasi laminæ ferreæ.
Septuagint (Swete)
αἱ πλευραὶ αὐτοῦ πλευραὶ χάλκειαι, ἡ δὲ ῥάχις αὐτοῦ σίδηρος χυτός.
Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 40:18
עֲ֭צָמָיו אֲפִיקֵ֣י נְחוּשָׁ֑ה גְּ֝רָמָ֗יו כִּמְטִ֥יל בַּרְזֶֽל

Haydock's commentary

Gristle. Hebrew again, "bones." (Calmet)

Septuagint, "back-bone, like cast iron."

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.