Job 40:18

King James Version

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Its bones are tubes of bronze;Its limbs are like bars of iron.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"His bones are tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
His bones are lyke pipes of brasse, yea his bones are lyke staues of iron.

Darby Translation
His bones are tubes of bronze, his members are like bars of iron.

New King James Version
His bones are like beams of bronze, His ribs like bars of iron.

Literal Translation
his bones are like tubes of bronze; his bones like bars of iron;

Easy-to-Read Version
His bones are as strong as bronze. His legs are like iron bars.

World English Bible
His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

King James Version (1611)
His bones are as strong pieces of brasse: his bones are like barres of iron.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His shynnes are like pipes off brasse, his rygge bones are like staues of yro

American Standard Version
His bones are as tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.

Bible in Basic English
His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

Update Bible Version
His bones are [as] tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron.

Webster's Bible Translation
His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.

New English Translation
Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

Contemporary English Version
The bones in its legs are like bronze or iron.

Complete Jewish Bible
his bones are like bronze pipes, his limbs like iron bars.

Geneva Bible (1587)
His bones are like staues of brasse, and his small bones like staues of yron.

George Lamsa Translation
His bones are strong as pieces of brass; yea, they are like bars of iron.

Amplified Bible
"His bones are tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron.

Hebrew Names Version
His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
His bones are as pipes of brass; his gristles are like bars of iron.

New Living Translation
Its bones are tubes of bronze. Its limbs are bars of iron.

New Life Bible
His bones are like brass. His legs are like pieces of iron.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.

English Revised Version
His bones are as tubes of brass; his limbs are like bars of iron.

Berean Standard Bible
His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.

New Revised Standard
Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
His bones, are barrels of bronze, his frame, is like hammered bars of iron:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(40-13) His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron.

Lexham English Bible
Its bones are tubes of copper, its limbs like rods of iron.

English Standard Version
His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.

New American Standard Bible
"His bones are tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron.

New Century Version
Its bones are like tubes of bronze; its legs are like bars of iron.

Good News Translation
His bones are as strong as bronze, and his legs are like iron bars.

Christian Standard Bible®
His bones are bronze tubes; his limbs are like iron rods.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hise boonys ben as the pipis of bras; the gristil of hym is as platis of yrun.

Young's Literal Translation
His bones [are] tubes of brass, His bones [are] as a bar of iron.

Revised Standard Version
His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. ¹⁶ Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. ¹⁷ He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. ¹⁸ His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. ¹⁹ He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. ²⁰ Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. ²¹ He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. ²² The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. ²³ Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. ²⁴ He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

Bible Verse Review
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Job 7:12, Isaiah 48:4

Reciprocal: Job 6:12 - of brass Job 10:11 - fenced Revelation 9:9 - they had

Cross-References

Genesis 40:12
And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

Genesis 41:26
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

1 Corinthians 10:4
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:24
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass: his bones [are] as bars of iron. Than which nothing is stronger. The repetition is made for greater illustration and confirmation; but what is said is not applicable to the elephant, whose bones are porous and rimous, light and spongy for the most part, as appears from the osteology k of it; excepting its teeth, which are the ivory; though the teeth of the river horse are said to exceed them in hardness l; and artificers say m they are wrought with greater difficulty than ivory. The ancients, according to Pausanias n, used them instead of it; who relates, that the face of the image of the goddess Cybele was made of them: and Kircher o says, in India they make beads, crucifixes, and statues of saints of them; and that they are as hard or harder than a flint, and fire may be struck out of them. So the teeth of the morss, a creature of the like kind in the northern countries, are valued by the inhabitants as ivory p, for hardness, whiteness, and weight, beyond it, and are dearer and much traded in; :-; but no doubt not the teeth only, but the other bones of the creature in the text are meant.

k In Philosoph. Transact. vol. 5. p. 155, 156. l Odoardus Barbosa apud Bochart. ut supra. (Apud Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 14. col. 758.) m Diepenses apud ib. n Arcadica, sive, l. 8. p. 530. o China cum Monument. p. 193. p Olaus Magnus, ut supra, (De Ritu. Septent. Gent.) l. 2. c. 19. Voyage to Spitzbergen, p. 115.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His bones are as strong pieces of brass - The circumstance here adverted to was remarkable, because the common residence of the animal was the water, and the bones of aquatic animals are generally hollow, and much less firm than those of land animals. It should be observed here, that the word rendered “brass” in the Scriptures most probably denotes “copper.” Brass is a compound metal, composed of copper and zinc; and there is no reason to suppose that the art of compounding it was known at as early a period of the world as the time of Job. The word here translated “strong pieces” (אפיק 'âphı̂yq) is rendered by Schultens “alvei - channels,” or “beds,” as of a rivulet or stream; and by Rosenmuller, Gesenius, Noyes, and Umbreit, “tubes” - supposed to allude to the fact that they seemed to be hollow tubes of brass. But the more common meaning of the word is “strong, mighty,” and there is no impropriety in retaining that sense here; and then the meaning would be, that his bones were so firm that they seemed to be made of solid metal.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 40:18. His bones are as strong pieces of brass-bars of iron. — The tusk I have mentioned above is uncommonly hard, solid, and weighty for its size.