Teks -- Job 40:18 (NET)

40:18 Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Job 40:18 - strong

Rather, "tubes" of copper [UMBREIT].

Clarke: Job 40:18 - His bones are as strong pieces of brass-bars of iron

His bones are as strong pieces of brass-bars of iron - The tusk I have mentioned above is uncommonly hard, solid, and weighty for its size.

TSK: Job 40:18

Job 7:12; Isa 48:4

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Job 40:18 - His bones // As strong pieces of brass

His bones under which title are comprehended his ribs (as the LXX here render it) and his teeth.

As strong pieces of brass exceeding hard and strong, as they are in both these creature.

Haydock: Job 40:18 - Wonder // Run

Wonder. Hebrew, "make haste," taking time to render it muddy. (Ælian xiv. 44.) ---

It can drink a great deal at once, and then abstain for a week. (Calmet) ---

Run. Hebrew, "he may draw." Septuagint, "may knock at his mouth," (Haydock) in vain, (Calmet) as long as it can breathe by holding by holding its trunk out of the water. (Aristotle ix. 46.) ---

Theo.[Theodotion?] in the Septuagint, "If there should be an inundation, it shall not perceive. It confideth that, or when, the Jordan shall knock at its mouth. He shall take it by its eye; saying snares, he shall bore [ its ] nose." (Haydock)

Gill: Job 40:18 - His bones are as strong pieces of brass: his bones are as bars of iron.

His bones are as strong pieces of brass: his bones are as bars of iron. Than which nothing is stronger. The repetition is made for greater illustration and confirmation; but what is said is not applicable to the elephant, whose bones are porous and rimous, light and spongy for the most part, as appears from the osteology ^k of it; excepting its teeth, which are the ivory; though the teeth of the river horse are said to exceed them in hardness ^l; and artificers say ^m they are wrought with greater difficulty than ivory. The ancients, according to Pausanias ⁿ, used them instead of it; who relates, that the face of the image of the goddess Cybele was made of them: and Kircher ^o says, in India they make beads, crucifixes, and statues of saints of them; and that they are as hard or harder than a flint, and fire may be struck out of them. So the teeth of the morss, a creature of the like kind in the northern countries, are valued by the inhabitants as ivory ^p, for hardness, whiteness, and weight, beyond it, and are dearer and much traded in; See Gill on Job 40:20; but no doubt not the teeth only, but the other bones of the creature in the text are meant.