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Job Chapter 41 verse 7 Holy Bible

ASV Job 41:7

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears?
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BBE Job 41:7

One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.
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DARBY Job 41:7

Wilt thou fill his skin with darts, and his head with fish-spears?
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KJV Job 41:7

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
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WBT Job 41:7

One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
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WEB Job 41:7

Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears?
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YLT Job 41:7

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? The hippopotamus was captured in this way by the Egyptians at an early date, and hence the idea of trying the same mode of capture with the crocodile would naturally arise; but in the time of Job it would seem that no one had been bold enough to attempt it. The skin of the crocodile is penetrable in very few places, and his capture by a single man with a harpoon, though now sometimes practised (Wilkinson, in the author's 'Herodotus,' vol. 2. p. 99), is still a work of danger and difficulty. Or his head with fish-spears? Fish-spears would have small effect on the head of a crocodile, which is bony and covered by a very tough skin. There is a vulnerable place, however, at the point where the head joins the spine, at which the ancient Egyptians, when they ventured to attack the crocodile, were wont to strike (see the author's 'History of Ancient Egypt,' vol. 1. p. 545).

Ellicott's Commentary