Job 41:15
New International Version
Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;

New Living Translation
The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together.

English Standard Version
His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.

Berean Standard Bible
His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

King James Bible
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

New King James Version
His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as with a seal;

New American Standard Bible
His strong scales are his pride, Locked as with a tight seal.

NASB 1995
“His strong scales are his pride, Shut up as with a tight seal.

NASB 1977
His strong scales are his pride, Shut up as with a tight seal.

Legacy Standard Bible
Its strong scales are its pride, Shut up as with a tight seal.

Amplified Bible
“His strong scales are his pride, Bound together as with a tight seal.

Christian Standard Bible
His pride is in his rows of scales, closely sealed together.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
His pride is in his rows of scales, closely sealed together.

American Standard Version
His strong scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For in the torrent his mouth is tied up and bound and sealed

Brenton Septuagint Translation
His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his skin as a smyrite stone.

Contemporary English Version
Its back is covered with shield after shield,

Douay-Rheims Bible
His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.

English Revised Version
His strong scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Its back has rows of scales that are tightly sealed.

Good News Translation
His back is made of rows of shields, fastened together and hard as stone.

International Standard Version
His protective scales are his pride, they lie sealed tightly together.

JPS Tanakh 1917
His scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal.

Literal Standard Version
A pride—strong ones of shields, | Shut up—a close seal.

Majority Standard Bible
His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

New American Bible
Rows of scales are on his back, tightly sealed together;

NET Bible
Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal;

New Revised Standard Version
Its back is made of shields in rows, shut up closely as with a seal.

New Heart English Bible
Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

Webster's Bible Translation
His scales are his pride, shut together as with a close seal.

World English Bible
Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

Young's Literal Translation
A pride -- strong ones of shields, Shut up -- a close seal.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God's Power Shown in Leviathan
14Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth? 15His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together. 16One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.…

Cross References
Matthew 27:66
So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.

Job 41:14
Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

Job 41:16
One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.


Treasury of Scripture

His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

scales.

Jeremiah 9:23
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

a close

Revelation 5:2,3,5
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? …

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Verse 15. - His scales are his pride; or, his pride is in the channeling of his scales (literally, of his shields). The scales of the crocodile are arranged in five rows along his entire back, with a depression between the rows which is like a "channel." Each individual scale resembles a shield. They are shut up together as with a close seal; each, i.e. closely attached to its fellow,so that there is no space between them. "A rifle-ball," according to Canon Tristram, "glances off from them as from a rock" ('Natural History of the Bible,' p. 352).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
[His] rows
אֲפִיקֵ֣י (’ă·p̄î·qê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 650: Containing, a tube, a bed, valley of a, stream, a strong thing, a hero

of scales are
מָֽגִנִּ֑ים (mā·ḡin·nîm)
Noun - common plural
Strong's 4043: A shield, a protector, the scaly hide of the crocodile

[his] pride,
גַּ֭אֲוָה (ga·’ă·wāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1346: Arrogance, majesty, ornament

tightly
סָ֝ג֗וּר (sā·ḡūr)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's 5462: To shut up, to surrender

sealed together.
חוֹתָ֥ם (ḥō·w·ṯām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2368: A seal, signet ring


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