Job 41:31
He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
BSB
ASV
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
KJV
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
He will make the deep sea to boil like a pot. He will make it as when ointments boil. 31. What is expressed by the 'sea' but the life of the worldly, what by the 'deep' ['profundum'] but their deep and hidden thoughts? And this deep sea this Leviathan makes to boil like a pot, because it is doubtless quite plain, that in the time of the last persecution he studies to excite the minds of the reprobate against the life of the Elect by the flame of cruelty.
He maketh the deep to boil (k) like a pot,.... Which is all in a from through the violent agitation and motion of the waves, caused by its tossing and tumbling about; which better suits with the whale than the crocodile, whose motion in the water is not so vehement; he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment; this also seems to make against the crocodile, which is a river fish, and is chiefly in the Nile.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.