Job 41:17-19

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Job 41:17 tn Heb “a man with his brother.”
2. Job 41:18 tn Heb “the eyelids,” but it represents the early beams of the dawn as the cover of night lifts.
3. Job 41:19 sn For the animal, the image is that of pent-up breath with water in a hot steam jet coming from its mouth, like a stream of fire in the rays of the sun. The language is hyperbolic, probably to reflect the pagan ideas of the dragon of the deep in a polemical way—they feared it as a fire breathing monster, but in reality it might have been a steamy crocodile.