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Job 40:18
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His bones are bronze tubes;his limbs are like iron rods.
His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.
Its bones are like tubes of bronze; its legs are like bars of iron.
Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.
"His bones are tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron.
"His bones are tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron.
His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.
His bones are like staues of brasse, and his small bones like staues of yron.
Its bones are tubes of bronze;Its limbs are like bars of iron.
His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.
The bones in its legs are like bronze or iron.
his bones are like bronze pipes, his limbs like iron bars.
His bones are tubes of bronze, his members are like bars of iron.
His bones are as strong as bronze. His legs are like iron bars.
His bones are strong as pieces of brass; yea, they are like bars of iron.
His bones are as strong as bronze, and his legs are like iron bars.
Its bones are tubes of copper, its limbs like rods of iron.
his bones are like tubes of bronze; his bones like bars of iron;
His shynnes are like pipes off brasse, his rygge bones are like staues of yro
His bones are as tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.
His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.
His bones are as pipes of brass; his gristles are like bars of iron.
His bones are as strong pieces of brasse: his bones are like barres of iron.
His bones are lyke pipes of brasse, yea his bones are lyke staues of iron.
If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.
His bones are as tubes of brass; his limbs are like bars of iron.
His bones are [as] tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron.
His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.
His bones are like beams of bronze, His ribs like bars of iron.
Its bones are tubes of bronze. Its limbs are bars of iron.
His bones are like brass. His legs are like pieces of iron.
Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.
His bones, are barrels of bronze, his frame, is like hammered bars of iron:
(40-13) His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron.
His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.
His bones [are] tubes of brass, His bones [are] as a bar of iron.
"His bones are tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 7:12, Isaiah 48:4
Reciprocal: Job 6:12 - of brass Job 10:11 - fenced Revelation 9:9 - they had
Cross-References
Joseph answerde, This is the expownyng of the dreem; thre siouns ben yit thre daies,
Seuene faire kiyn, and seuene ful eeris of corn, ben seuene yeeris of plentee, and tho comprehenden the same strengthe of dreem;
and alle drunken the same spiritual drynke; thei drunken of the spiritual stoon folewynge hem; and the stoon was Crist.
took breed, and dide thankyngis, and brak, and seide, Take ye, and ete ye; this is my bodi, which schal be bitraied for you; do ye this thing in to my mynde.
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.
