Job 41:5
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Portas vultus ejus quis aperiet ? per gyrum dentium ejus formido.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πύλας προσώπου αὐτοῦ τίς ἀνοίξει; κύκλῳ ὀδόντων αὐτοῦ φόβος.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 41:6
- דַּלְתֵ֣י פָ֭נָיו מִ֣י פִתֵּ֑חַ סְבִיב֖וֹת שִׁנָּ֣יו אֵימָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How sowers of strifes and peacemakers are to be admonished
But, on the other hand, the peacemakers are to be admonished that they detract not from the efficacy of so great an undertaking through not knowing between whom they ought to establish peace. For, as there is much harm if unity be wanting to the good, so there is exceeding harm if it be not wanting to the bad. If, then, the iniquity of the perverse is united in peace, assuredly there is an accession of strength to their evil doings, since the more they agree among themselves in wickedness, by so much the more stoutly do they dash themselves against the good to afflict them. For hence it is that against the preachers of that vessel of damnation, to wit, Antichrist, is it said by the divine voice to the blessed Job, The members of his flesh stick close to each other ( Job xli. 14 ). …