Job 41:20

Modern

Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

Traditional

Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

Literal

From his nostrils smoke comes forth, boiling like a pot and a reed.

Latin

De naribus ejus procedit fumus, sicut ollæ succensæ atque ferventis.

Hebrew

English

Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah 1:13–14
Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.”