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The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan

Job 41:31

In 11 translations

BSB
He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
KJV
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
WEB
He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
ASV
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
LSV
He causes the deep to boil as a pot, || He makes the sea as a pot of ointment.
YLT
He causeth to boil as a pot the deep, The sea he maketh as a pot of ointment.
DBY
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;
DRC41:22
He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.
GNV41:22
He maketh the depth to boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment.
JPS41:23
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a seething mixture.
LXXE41:23
He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC41:23
יַרְתִּ֣יחַ כַּסִּ֣יר מְצוּלָ֑ה יָ֝֗ם יָשִׂ֥ים כַּמֶּרְקָחָֽה׃KJV:Job.41.31
LXX-Br41:23
Ἀναζεῖ τὴν ἄβυσσον ὥσπερ χαλκεῖον· ἥγηται δὲ τὴν θάλασσαν ὥσπερ ἐξάλειπτρον,

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  • 41:23 in some Bibles
  • 41:31 in most Bibles

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