Job 41:15
His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
BSB
ASV
His strong scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal.
KJV
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Rather, his "furrows of shields" (as "tubes," "channels," see on Job 40:18), are, &c., that is, the rows of scales, like shields covering him: he has seventeen such rows. shut up--firmly closed together.
Shut - Closely compacted together, as things that are fastened together by a seal. This likewise is true of the crocodile, but the skin of the whale is smooth and entire without any scales at all.
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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Jeremiah 9:23This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
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But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor…
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
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Revelation 5:5Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
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Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”