Job 41:24

Job 41:24 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
• New International Version (NIV)Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
• English Standard Version (ESV)His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.
• New King James Version (NKJV)His heart is as hard as stone, Even as hard as the lower millstone.

Context of Job 41:24

22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him. 23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable. His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone! 25When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing. 26The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

Job 41:24 word by word

לִ֭בּוֹ יָצ֣וּק כְּמוֹ־אָ֑בֶן וְ֝יָצ֗וּק כְּפֶ֣לַח תַּחְתִּֽית׃Read the interlinear

• His chestלֵבlêb · heartH3820
• is as hardיָצַקyâtsaq · to pour: firmH3332
• asכְּמוֹkemô kâmô · likeH3644
• a rockאֶ֫בֶן'eben · stoneH68
• as a lowerתַּחְתִּיtachtîy · lowerH8482
• millstoneפֶּ֫לַחpelach · millstoneH6400

Cross-references for Job 41:24

• Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
• Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
• Zechariah 7:12They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

Commentaries on Job 41:24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24Hard as a piece of the nether millstone - Which is required to be harder than that which runs above.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24His heart is as firm as a stone - As hard; as solid. Bochart remarks that the word “heart” here is not to be regarded as denoting the “courage” of the animal, as it sometimes does, but the heart literally. The statement occurs in the description of the various parts of the animal, and the object is to show that there was special firmness or solidity in every one of his members. There is special firmness or strength needed in the “hearts” of all animals…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. heart--"In large beasts which are less acute in feeling, there is great firmness of the heart, and slower motion" [Bochart]. The nether millstone, on which the upper turns, is especially hard.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 41:24

• God
• Mill
• Millstone

In the dictionaries

• Comely
• Iron
• Lay
• Leap
• Leviathan
• Mill
• Hard; Hardiness; Harddiness; Hardly
• Night-Monster

Commentaries on Job 41

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary