Job 41:6
His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Corpus illius quasi scuta fusilia, compactum squamis se prementibus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὰ ἔγκατα αὐτοῦ ἀσπίδες χάλκειαι, σύνδεσμος αὐτοῦ ὥσπερ σμιρίτης λίθος·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 41:7
- גַּ֭אֲוָה אֲפִיקֵ֣י מָֽגִנִּ֑ים סָ֝ג֗וּר חוֹתָ֥ם צָֽר
Haydock's commentary
Body. Septuagint, "entrails are like brazen shields." Protestants, "His scales are his pride shut up together, as with a close seal." (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.