Holy Scripture

Job 41:16

A church father on this verse
“One is joined to another, and not even a breath comes between them. 54. These scales of sinners are both hardened and joined together, so as not to be penetrated by any breath of life from the mouth of preachers. For those whom a like guilt associates, the same does a perverse defence also crowd together in obstinate…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXIII

Source: Septuagint

Original

16His heart is firm as a stone, And it stands like an unyielding anvil.

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14And power is lodged in his neck, Before him destruction runs.

15The flesh also of his body is joined together: If one pours violence upon him, he shall not be moved.

— Job 41:16 —

17And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts Which leap upon the earth.

18If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, Either with the spear or the breastplate.

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