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Job 41:26-28  New English Translation

26 Whoever strikes it with a sword[a]
will have no effect,[b]
nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.
27 It regards iron as straw
and bronze as rotten wood.
28 Arrows[c] do not make it flee;
slingstones become like chaff to it.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:26 tn This is the clearest reading, following A. B. Davidson, Job, 285. The versions took different readings of the construction.
  2. Job 41:26 tn The verb קוּם (qum, “stand”) with בְּלִי (beli, “not”) has the sense of “does not hold firm,” or “gives way.”
  3. Job 41:28 tn Heb “the son of the bow.”
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