Job 41:13 (WEB)
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“The great trees are overshadowed by him, and he sleepeth beside the reed, the rush, and the sedge.”He is king over all things that are in the waters—that is to say in the seat of pleasure and luxury, of propagation of children, and of the fertilisation of the marriage bed.“For who can strip off his outer garment?” — editor's note: Job xli. 13 sq. R.V. for the latter part of the verse has “Round about his teeth is terror, his strong scales are his pride.” Jerome’s words are not found in…
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“No fishing-vessel was able to carry one scale of his tail: destruction ran before him, ravaging all that met him.” — editor's note: Job xli. 13, Sept. but in R.V. xli. 22: And terror danceth before him.
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