OLD TESTAMENT

Job 40:14

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Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.

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Verse 14. Beginning, or prince. Bible.—The elephant may be considered as the king of beasts for strength, agility, gratitude, longevity, and so forth None approaches so near to man. Pliny viii. 1. Calmet. Lipsius, 1 ep. 50. Amama.—Sword; which is the rhinoceros, killing the elephant under the belly with its horn; (Pliny viii. 20. Grot.) or God seems to have entrusted his sword to the elephant, for the destruction of his enemies. Nothing can withstand its fury, as it overturns houses and trees with its trunk. Jun. Calmet.

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