Job 41:20
As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quasi stipulam æstimabit malleum, et deridebit vibrantem hastam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὡς καλάμη ἐλογίσθησαν σφυρά, καταγελᾷ δὲ σεισμοῦ πυρφόρου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 41:21
- כְּ֭קַשׁ נֶחְשְׁב֣וּ תוֹתָ֑ח וְ֝יִשְׂחַ֗ק לְרַ֣עַשׁ כִּידֽוֹן
Haydock's commentary
Hammer. Septuagint sphura, means also, "the bottom of a rock." This would not overwhelm the whale; as some are represented like floating islands. Protestants, "darts." (Haydock)
Chaldean, "axe." Others have, "the ballista;" an instrument to throw stones. (Calmet)
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.