JOB 41:7 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Can you fill its hide with harpoons,
⇔ ≈or its head with fishing spears?

UHB 31 הַֽ⁠תְמַלֵּ֣א בְ⁠שֻׂכּ֣וֹת עוֹר֑⁠וֹ וּ⁠בְ⁠צִלְצַ֖ל דָּגִ֣ים רֹאשֽׁ⁠וֹ׃ ‡
(31 ha⁠təmallēʼ ⱱə⁠sukkōt ˊōr⁠ō ū⁠ⱱə⁠ʦilʦal dāgim roʼsh⁠ō.)

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BrLXX Τὰ ἔγκατα αὐτοῦ ἀσπίδες χάλκεαι. σύνδεσμος δὲ αὐτοῦ, ὥσπερ σμυρίτης λίθος.
(Ta egkata autou aspides ⱪalkeai. sundesmos de autou, hōsper smuritaʸs lithos. )

BrTr His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his skin as a smyrite stone.

UST People cannot throw harpoons hard enough at crocodiles to pierce their hides!
⇔ People cannot throw fishing spears into their heads!

OEB Canst thou fill his skin with barbs,
⇔ Or his head with the fish-harpon?

WEBBE Can you fill his skin with barbed irons,
⇔ or his head with fish spears?

WMBB (Same as above)

MSG ^(1-11)“Or can you pull in the sea beast, Leviathan, with a fly rod
  and stuff him in your creel?
Can you lasso him with a rope,
  or snag him with an anchor?
Will he beg you over and over for mercy,
  or flatter you with flowery speech?
Will he apply for a job with you
  to run errands and serve you the rest of your life?
Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish?
  Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children?
Will you put him on display in the market
  and have shoppers haggle over the price?
Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion,
  or drive harpoons into his huge head?
If you so much as lay a hand on him,
  you won’t live to tell the story.
What hope would you have with such a creature?
  Why, one look at him would do you in!
If you can’t hold your own against his glowering visage,
  how, then, do you expect to stand up to me?
Who could confront me and get by with it?
  I’m in charge of all this—I run this universe!

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

LSV Do you fill his skin with barbed irons? And his head with fish-spears?

FBV Can you pierce his skin with many harpoons, its head with fishing spears?

T4T Can you pierce their skins by throwing fishing spears at them?
⇔ Can you pierce their heads with a harpoon?

LEB • or[fn] its head with fish spears?

41:? Hebrew “and”

BBE Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?

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JPS (40-31) Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears?

ASV Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons,
⇔ Or his head with fish-spears?

DRA One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them:

YLT Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with fish-spears his head?

Drby Wilt thou fill his skin with darts, and his head with fish-spears?

RV Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

Wbstr Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

KJB-1769 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
(Canst thou/you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? )

KJB-1611 Canst thou fill his skinne with barbed irons? or his head with fishspeares?
(Canst thou/you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fishspeares?)

Bshps Canst thou fil the basket with his skin? or the fishe panier with his head?
(Canst thou/you fil the basket with his skin? or the fishe panier with his head?)

Gnva One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them.
(One is set to another, that no wind can come between them. )

Cvdl Canst thou fyll the nett wt his skynne, or ye fysh panyer with his heade?
(Canst thou/you fill the nett with his skin, or ye/you_all fysh panyer with his heade?)

Wycl Oon is ioyned to another; and sotheli brething goith not thorouy tho.
(Oon is joined to another; and truly breathing goeth/goes not thorouy tho.)

Luth Seine stolzen Schuppen sind wie feste Schilde, fest und enge ineinander.
(Seine stolzen Schuppen are like feste Schilde, fest and enge ineinander.)

ClVg Una uni conjungitur, et ne spiraculum quidem incedit per eas.
(Una uni conyungitur, and not spiraculum indeed incedit through eas. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

הַֽ⁠תְמַלֵּ֣א בְ⁠שֻׂכּ֣וֹת עוֹר֑⁠וֹ וּ⁠בְ⁠צִלְצַ֖ל דָּגִ֣ים רֹאשֽׁ⁠וֹ

(Some words not found in UHB: back rows shields shut_up seal closely )

Yahweh is using the question form for emphasis. If a speaker of your language would not use the question form for that purpose, you could translate these questions as statements or as exclamations. Alternate translation: “You cannot fill its hide with harpoons or its head with spears of fish!”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

וּ⁠בְ⁠צִלְצַ֖ל דָּגִ֣ים

(Some words not found in UHB: back rows shields shut_up seal closely )

Yahweh is using this possessive form to describe spears that are used to catch fish, not spears that are made of fish. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: “or … with fishing spears”

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