Job 41:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The folds of its flesh cling together; it is firmly cast and immovable.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The folds of his flesh cleave together; they are firm upon him, and they cannot shake [when he moves].

American Standard Version (1901)

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm upon him; they cannot be moved.

Common English Bible

The folds of his flesh stick together; on him they are tough and unyielding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

A path will shine after him; he will esteem the abyss as if it were weakening with age.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A path shall shine after him: he shall esteem the deep as growing old.

Job 41:23 Cross References

Job 40:17

It makes its tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are knit together.

Job 41:22

In its neck abides strength, and terror dances before it.

Job 41:24

Its heart is as hard as stone, as hard as the lower millstone.

Ezekiel 32:2

Mortal, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, trouble the water with your feet, and foul your streams.

Revelation 9:9

they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.