Job 41:24

Modern

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

Traditional

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

Literal

His heart is as firm as a stone, even as firm as a lower millstone.

Latin

Cor ejus indurabitur tamquam lapis, et stringetur quasi malleatoris incus.

Hebrew

English

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah 48:4
For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
Zechariah 7:12
They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.