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The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan

Job 41:30

In 11 translations

BSB
His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
KJV
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.Sharp stones: Heb. Sharp pieces of potsherd
WEB
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
ASV
His underparts are like sharp potsherds: He spreadeth as it were a threshing-wain upon the mire.
LSV
Sharp points of clay [are] under him, || He spreads gold on the mire.
YLT
Under him [are] sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.
DBY
His under parts are sharp potsherds: he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
DRC41:21
The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
GNV41:21
Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre.
JPS41:22
Sharpest potsherds are under him; he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
LXXE41:22
His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is as an immense quantity of clay.

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Original-language editions

WLC41:22
תַּ֭חְתָּיו חַדּ֣וּדֵי חָ֑רֶשׂ יִרְפַּ֖ד חָר֣וּץ עֲלֵי־טִֽיט׃KJV:Job.41.30
LXX-Br41:22
Ἡ στρωμνὴ αὐτοῦ ὀβελίσκοι ὀξεῖς, πᾶς δὲ χρυσὸς θαλάσσης ὑπʼ αὐτὸν ὥσπερ πηλὸς ἀμύθητος.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 41:15Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

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  • 41:22 in some Bibles
  • 41:30 in most Bibles

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