Job 41:13
Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
BSB
ASV
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
KJV
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
Who can discover the face of his garment?.... Or rather uncover it? Not the sea, which Mr. Broughton represents as the garment of the whale; who can strip him of it, or take him out of that, and bring him to land? which, though not impossible, is difficult: but either the garment of his face, the large bulk or prominence that hangs over his eyes; or rather his skin.
Who can discern the face of his garment? - literally, “Who can reveal the face, that is, the appearance, of his garment?” This “garment” is undoubtedly his skin. The meaning seems to be, “His hard and rough skin is his defense, and no one can so strip off that as to have access to him.” The word rendered “discover” (גלה gâlâh) means “to make naked”; then “to reveal”; and the idea is, that he cannot be made naked of that covering, or deprived of it so that one could attack him.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Psalms 32:9Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.
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A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!
“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can guide the whole animal.
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
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James 3:3When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can guide the whole animal.
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Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.
I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
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2 Kings 19:28Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
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But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of…