The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan
Job 41:24
In 11 translations
- BSB
- His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
- KJV
- His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
- WEB
- His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
- ASV
- His heart is as firm as a stone; Yea, firm as the nether millstone.
- LSV
- His heart [is] firm as a stone, || Indeed, firm as the lower piece.
- YLT
- His heart [is] firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the lower piece.
- DBY
- His heart is firm as a stone, yea, firm as the nether [millstone].
- DRC41:15
- His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith’s anvil.
- GNV41:15
- His heart is as strong as a stone, and as hard as the nether milstone.
- JPS41:16
- His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, firm as the nether millstone.
- LXXE41:16
- His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
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Original-language editions
- WLC41:16
- לִ֭בּוֹ יָצ֣וּק כְּמוֹ־אָ֑בֶן וְ֝יָצ֗וּק כְּפֶ֣לַח תַּחְתִּֽית׃KJV:Job.41.24
- LXX-Br41:16
- Ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ πέπηγεν ὡς λίθος, ἕστηκε δὲ ὥσπερ ἄκμων ἀνήλατος.
Who and where
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
LeviathanMillMillstoneMill; MillstoneMillsNight-MonsterCondescension of GodHard; Hardiness; Harddiness; HardlyAnimalsGod
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Cross-references most cited first
- Zechariah 7:12They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
- Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 41:16 in some Bibles
- 41:24 in most Bibles