Bilangan 24:8

24:8 God brought them out of Egypt.

They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull;

they will devour hostile people ¹ 

and will break their bones

and will pierce them through with arrows.

Ratapan 3:4

ב (Bet)

3:4 He has made my mortal skin ²  waste away;

he has broken my bones.

[24:8]  ¹ tn Heb “they will devour nations,” their adversaries.

[3:4]  ² tn Heb “my flesh and my skin.” The two nouns joined with ו (vav), בְשָׂרִי וְעוֹרִי (basari vÿ’ori, “my flesh and my skin”), form a nominal hendiadys: the first functions adjectivally and the second retains its full nominal sense: “my mortal skin.”