Job 40:17
New International Version
Its tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.

New Living Translation
Its tail is as strong as a cedar. The sinews of its thighs are knit tightly together.

English Standard Version
He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

Berean Standard Bible
His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.

King James Bible
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

New King James Version
He moves his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.

New American Standard Bible
“He hangs his tail like a cedar; The tendons of his thighs are knit together.

NASB 1995
“He bends his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

NASB 1977
“He bends his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

Legacy Standard Bible
It hangs its tail like a cedar; The sinews of its thighs are knit together.

Amplified Bible
“He sways his tail like a cedar; The tendons of his thighs are twisted and knit together [like a rope].

Christian Standard Bible
He stiffens his tail like a cedar tree; the tendons of his thighs are woven firmly together.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He stiffens his tail like a cedar tree; the tendons of his thighs are woven firmly together.

American Standard Version
He moveth his tail like a cedar: The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He lifts up his tail like a cedar and the sinews of his thighs stand up

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.

Contemporary English Version
and legs. Its tail is like a cedar tree, and its thighs are thick.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He setteth up his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his testicles are wrapped together.

English Revised Version
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
It makes its tail stiff like a cedar. The ligaments of its thighs are intertwined.

Good News Translation
His tail stands up like a cedar, and the muscles in his legs are strong.

International Standard Version
His tail protrudes stiffly, like cedar; the sinews of his thigh interlink for strength.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He straineth his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

Literal Standard Version
He bends his tail as a cedar, | The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,

Majority Standard Bible
His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.

New American Bible
He carries his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are like cables.

NET Bible
It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

New Revised Standard Version
It makes its tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are knit together.

New Heart English Bible
He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

Webster's Bible Translation
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his male organs are wrapped together.

World English Bible
He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

Young's Literal Translation
He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Job Humbles Himself Before the LORD
16See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly. 17His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit. 18His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.…

Cross References
Genesis 1:21
So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Job 40:16
See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly.

Job 40:18
His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.


Treasury of Scripture

He moves his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

moveth.

Job 41:23
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

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Job 40
1. Job humbles himself to God
6. God stirs him up to show his righteousness, power, and wisdom
16. Of the behemoth














(17) The sinews of his stones.--Rather, of his thighs.

Verse 17. - He moveth his tail like a cedar. The tail of the hippopotamus is remarkably short and thick. It only bends slightly, being stiff and unyielding, like the stem of a cedar. The sinews of his stones (rather, of his thighs) are wrapped together; or, interwoven one with another (so Professor Lee and Mr. Houghton).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
His tail
זְנָב֣וֹ (zə·nā·ḇōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2180: Tail, end, stump

sways
יַחְפֹּ֣ץ (yaḥ·pōṣ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2654: To incline to, to bend, to be pleased with, desire

like
כְמוֹ־ (ḵə·mōw-)
Preposition
Strong's 3644: Like, as, when

a cedar;
אָ֑רֶז (’ā·rez)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 730: A cedar tree

the sinews
גִּידֵ֖י (gî·ḏê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1517: A thong, a tendon

of
פחדו (p̄a·ḥă·ḏōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

his thighs
פַחֲדָ֣יו (p̄a·ḥă·ḏāw)
Noun - mdc | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6344: A testicle

are tightly knit.
יְשֹׂרָֽגוּ׃ (yə·śō·rā·ḡū)
Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 8276: To be intertwined


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