OLD TESTAMENT

Job 41:23

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The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.

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Verse 23. The deep as growing old. Growing hoary, as it were, with the froth which he leaves behind him. Challoner.—The Vulg. has well expressed the force of the original, and shews the rapidity with which the crocodile moves. Calmet.—Prot. “one would think the deep to be hoary.” The devil transforms himself into an angel ( Bible.) of light. D.

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