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

22In his neck lodgeth strength, and terror danceth before him. 23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are fused upon him, they cannot be moved. His heart is firm as a stone, yea, firm as the nether [millstone]. 25When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: they are beside themselves with consternation. 26If any reach him with a sword, it cannot hold; neither spear, nor dart, nor harpoon.

Job 41:24 word by word

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

Cross-references for Job 41:24

• Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass,
• Jeremiah 5:3Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
• Zechariah 7:12And they made their heart [as] an adamant, that they should not hear the law, and the words that Jehovah of hosts sent by his Spirit by the hand of the former prophets: therefore was there great wrath from Jehovah 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