Job 41:15
His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith's anvil.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cor ejus indurabitur tamquam lapis, et stringetur quasi malleatoris incus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ πέπηγεν ὡς λίθος, ἕστηκεν δὲ ὥσπερ ἄκμων ἀνήλατος.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 41:16
- לִ֭בּוֹ יָצ֣וּק כְּמוֹ אָ֑בֶן וְ֝יָצ֗וּק כְּפֶ֣לַח תַּחְתִּֽית
Haydock's commentary
Stone. Pineda understands this of the whale's heart. Others suppose that it alludes to its cruel and fearless temper. (Menochius)
The Arabs call a valiant man, "heart of stone." (Calmet)
Smiths. Protestants, "as a piece of the nether millstone," (Haydock) which must be larger and more compact than that which is above. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "He hath stood immoveable as an anvil." (Haydock)
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.