InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Job C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 C38 C39 C40 C42
Job 41 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30 V31 V32 V33 V34
OET-LV (JOB 41:16) [fn] His/its_heart is_hard like a_stone and_it_is_hard like_a_mill-stone lower.
41:16 Note: KJB: ʼIyyōⱱ/(Job).41.24
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
לִ֭בּוֹ יָצ֣וּק כְּמוֹ־אָ֑בֶן וְ֝יָצ֗וּק כְּפֶ֣לַח תַּחְתִּֽית
his/its=heart hard (Some words not found in UHB: his/its=heart hard as_~_as stone and,[it_is]_hard like,a_mill-stone lower )
Here the would heart could mean: (1) the disposition of Leviathan. If that were hard, then Yahweh would be saying that Leviathan acted cruelly and was not afraid of anyone or anything. Alternate translation: [It acts cruelly and fears nothing]; (2) the chest of Leviathan. Alternate translation: [Its chest is hard like stone; yes, it is hard like a lower millstone]
Note 2 topic: translate-unknown
כְּפֶ֣לַח תַּחְתִּֽית
(Some words not found in UHB: his/its=heart hard as_~_as stone and,[it_is]_hard like,a_mill-stone lower )
A millstone is one of a pair of large, flat, round stones that people use to crush kernels of grain to process them into food for humans. The lower millstone needs to be especially strong and hard because it bears the weight of the upper millstone and the force of the crushing. If your readers would not be familiar with what a millstone is, in your translation you could use the name of a comparable object in your culture or you could use a general expression. Alternate translation: [like a stone that people use to crush grain]
OET-LV (JOB 41:16) [fn] His/its_heart is_hard like a_stone and_it_is_hard like_a_mill-stone lower.
41:16 Note: KJB: ʼIyyōⱱ/(Job).41.24
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.