the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Job 41:15
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Its strong scales are its pride,Shut up as with a tight seal.
"His strong scales are his pride, Shut up as with a tight seal.
His scales are as it were strong shieldes, so fastened together as if they were sealed:
The rows of his shields are a pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal.
His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as with a seal;
The rows of shields are his pride, shut up with a tight seal;
His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together.
Strong scales are his pride, Shut up together with a close seal.
His scales are his pride, shut vp together as with a close seale.
His body is couered with scales as it were with shyldes, lockte in, kepte, and well copacte together.
His strong scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal.
His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.
[His] strong scales are [his] back, Shut up together [as with] a close seal.
[His] scales [are his] pride, shut together [as with] a close seal.
Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal;
Its back is covered with shield after shield,
The layers of his flesh stick together; they are firm on him, immovable.
The maiestie of his scales is like strog shields, and are sure sealed.
Who can open the doors of his mouth? His teeth are terrible round about.
"His strong scales are his pride, Bound together as with a tight seal.
Strong scales are his pride, Shut up together with a close seal.
The flakes of his flesh are joined together; they are firm upon him; they cannot be moved.
The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together.
His hard covering is his pride. He is shut up as with a lock.
His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
His strong scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
Its back is made of shields in rows, shut up closely as with a seal.
A pride, are his arched sides, closed up, with a firm seal;
(41-6) His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.
Its back has scales of shields; it is shut up closely as with a seal.
His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.
"His strong scales are his pride, Locked as with a tight seal.
It has rows of shields on its back that are tightly sealed together.
His back is made of rows of shields, fastened together and hard as stone.
His pride is in his rows of scales, closely sealed together.
His bodi is as yotun scheldys of bras, and ioyned togidere with scalis ouerleiynge hem silf.
A pride -- strong ones of shields, Shut up -- a close seal.
His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
scales: Heb. strong pieces of shields
pride: Jeremiah 9:23
a close: Revelation 5:2, Revelation 5:3, Revelation 5:5
Cross-References
Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal. This is notoriously true of the crocodile, whose back and tail are covered with scales, which are in a measure impenetrable and invincible: which all writers concerning it, and travellers that have seen it, agree in; :-; but the skin of the whale is smooth; the outward skin is thin, like parchment, and is easily pulled off with the hand; and its under skin, though an inch thick, is never stiff nor tough, but soft d: though, if Nearchus e is to be credited, he reports, that one was seen fifty cubits long, with a scaly skin all over it a cubit thick; and such, it is said, were by a storm brought into our river Trent some years ago, and cast ashore, which had scales upon their backs very hard, as large and thick as one of our shillings f. But Aben Ezra interprets this of the teeth of the leviathan, and in which he is followed by Hasaeus; which are strong like a shield, as the words used signify; so Mr. Broughton,
"the strong shields have pride:''
but then this is as applicable, or more so, to the scales of the crocodile; which are so close as if they were sealed together, and are like a shield, its defence, and in which it prides itself.
d Voyage to Spitzbergen, p. 146, 147, 152. e Apud Arrian. in Indicis. f Vid. Wesley's Dissertations on Job, dissert. 38. p. 290.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
His scales are his pride - Margin, “strong pieces of shields.” The literal translation of this would be, “Pride, the strong of shields;” that is, the strong shields. There can be no doubt that there is reference to the scales of the animal, as having a resemblance to strong shields laid close to each other. But there is considerable variety of opinion as to its meaning. Umbreit and Prof. Lee take the word here rendered “pride” (גאוה gê'voh) to be the same as (גוה gêvâh), “back,” and then the meaning would be that his back was armed as with a shield - referring, as Prof. Lee supposes, to the dorsal fin of the whale. But there is no necessity for this supposition, and it cannot be denied that it is somewhat forced. The “connection” requires that we should understand it, not of the dorsal fin, but of the scales; for a description immediately follows in continuation of this, which will by no means apply to the fin. The obvious and proper meaning is, that the pride or glory of the animal - that on which his safety depended, and which was the most remarkable thing about him - was his “scales,” which were laid together like firm and compact shields, so that nothing could penetrate them. This description accords better with the crocodile than with any other animal. It is covered with scales, “which are so hard as to resist a musket-ball.” “Ed. Ency.” The description cannot be applied to a whale, which has no scales; and accordingly Prof. Lee supposes that the reference in this verse and the two following is not to the “scales,” but to the “teeth,” and to “the setting in of the dorsal fin!”
Shut up together - Made close or compact.
As with a close seal - As if they had been sealed with wax, so that no air could come between them.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 41:15. His scales are his pride — They are impenetrable, as we have already seen.
