Catholic Public Domain Version
"He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear. "
— Job 41:20, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.”
“Out of his nostrils a smoke goeth, As of a boiling pot and burning rushes. ”
“Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.”
“Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.”
“As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.”
“Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.”
“Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.”
When a sword catches up with him, it will not be able to settle in, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
For he will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood.
The archer will not cause him to flee; the stones of the sling have been turned into stubble for him.
He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear.
The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay.
He will make the depths of the sea boil like a pot, and he will set it to bubble just as ointments do.
A path will shine after him; he will esteem the abyss as if it were weakening with age.