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20 Smoke streams from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burning[a] rushes.
21 Its breath sets coals ablaze
and a flame shoots from its mouth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:20 tn The word “burning” is supplied. The Syriac and Vulgate have “a seething and boiling pot” (reading אֹגֵם [ʾogem] for אַגְמֹן [ʾagmon]). This view is widely accepted.

20 Smoke pours from its nostrils(A)
    as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 Its breath(B) sets coals ablaze,
    and flames dart from its mouth.(C)

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