Job 40:17

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It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 41:23 : 23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable.

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  • Job 40:18-21
    4 verses
    82%

    18Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

    19It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.

    20For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.

    21Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.

  • Job 40:15-16
    2 verses
    82%

    15The Description of Behemoth“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

    16Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly.

  • Job 41:21-24
    4 verses
    73%

    21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

    22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it.

    23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable.

    24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

  • Job 41:15
    71%

    15Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal;

  • Job 39:19-21
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    71%

    19“Do you give the horse its strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

    20Do you make it leap like a locust? Its proud neighing is terrifying!

    21It paws the ground in the valley, exulting mightily, it goes out to meet the weapons.

  • Job 41:30
    69%

    30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

  • Job 41:27-28
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    27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

    28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.

  • Job 41:7
    68%

    7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

  • Job 8:17
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    17It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

  • Ezek 31:7-8
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    68%

    7It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.

    8The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

  • Job 15:26
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    26defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!

  • Job 39:23
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    23On it the quiver rattles; the lance and javelin flash.

  • Ps 29:5-6
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    5The LORD’s shout breaks the cedars, the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

    6He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox.

  • Job 41:1-2
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    67%

    1The Description of Leviathan(40:25)“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?

    2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

  • Job 26:12-13
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    12By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

    13By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

  • Song 5:14-15
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    14His arms are like rods of gold set with chrysolite. His abdomen is like polished ivory inlaid with sapphires.

    15His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

  • Job 41:18-19
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    18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.

    19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth!

  • Job 28:9
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    9On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

  • Prov 30:30
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    30a lion, mightiest of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;

  • Job 40:23-24
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    23If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.

    24Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?

  • Nah 2:12
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    12The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

  • Job 16:13
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    13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

  • 2 Sam 22:34
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    34He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.

  • Ps 80:10
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    10The mountains were covered by its shadow, the highest cedars by its branches.

  • Job 41:12
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    12I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.

  • Ps 17:12
    66%

    12He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.

  • Ezek 31:5
    66%

    5Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches grew long, because of the plentiful water in its shoots.

  • Job 39:8
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    8It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

  • Ezek 31:3
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    3Consider Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade, and extremely tall; its top reached into the clouds.

  • Job 4:10
    66%

    10There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.

  • Job 20:14
    66%

    14his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

  • Ps 148:9
    66%

    9you mountains and all you hills, you fruit trees and all you cedars,

  • Ps 18:33
    66%

    33He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.