Holy Scripture

Job 40:18

A church father on this verse
“His bones are as pipes of brass. His cartilage as plates of iron. 29. In the body they are bones which hold the members together, and members which are held together. This beast then has flesh, it has bones also; because there are some wicked persons, who are yet retained in error by others, and others still more wick…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXII

Source: Septuagint

Original

18His sides are sides of brass; And his backbone is as cast iron.

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16Behold now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the navel of his belly.

17He sets up his tail like a cypress; And his nerves are wrapped together.

— Job 40:18 —

19This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; Made to be played with by his angels.

20And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, He causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

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