Job 40:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:12 : 12 Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?
  • Isa 48:4 : 4 I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.

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  • Job 41:21-28
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    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.

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    26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

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

  • Job 6:12
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    12Is my strength like that of stones? or is my flesh made of bronze?

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    2Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

  • Job 20:24
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    24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

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    14Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.

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    25The bars of your gates will be made of iron and bronze, and may you have lifelong strength.

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    6He had bronze shin guards on his legs, and a bronze javelin was slung over his shoulders.

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    24his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

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    16For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.

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