Job 41:9
His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.
Open Job 41:9 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sternutatio ejus splendor ignis, et oculi ejus ut palpebræ diluculi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν πταρμῷ αὐτοῦ ἐπιφαύσκεται φέγγος, οἱ δὲ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ εἶδος ἑωσφόρου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 41:10
- עֲֽ֭טִישֹׁתָיו תָּ֣הֶל א֑וֹר וְ֝עֵינָ֗יו כְּעַפְעַפֵּי שָֽׁחַר
Haydock's commentary
Sneezing. When the whale breathes, it causes the water to foam. (Pineda) (Menochius)
The eyes of the crocodile are also (Haydock) very bright, when out of the water. (Pliny viii. 25.) They appear first, and therefore were used as an hieroglyphic of Aurora, (Horus i. 65.) or of the morning star. (Haydock)
Syriac, "His look is brilliant." Arabic, "The apples of his eyes are fiery, and his eyes are like the brightness of the morning." Septuagint, "like Aurora." (Calmet)
Olaus (xxi. 5.) says, "that the eyes of the whale shine at night,...and at a distance, are taken by fishermen for great fires."
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.