Job 41:30
New International Version
Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

New Living Translation
Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.

English Standard Version
His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

Berean Standard Bible
His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

King James Bible
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

New King James Version
His undersides are like sharp potsherds; He spreads pointed marks in the mire.

New American Standard Bible
“His underparts are like sharp pieces of pottery; He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mud.

NASB 1995
“His underparts are like sharp potsherds; He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.

NASB 1977
“His underparts are like sharp potsherds; He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.

Legacy Standard Bible
Its underparts are like sharp potsherds; It spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.

Amplified Bible
“His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery; He moves across and spreads out [grooves] like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks).

Christian Standard Bible
His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

American Standard Version
His underparts are like sharp potsherds: He spreadeth as it were a threshing-wain upon the mire.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English


Brenton Septuagint Translation
His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense quantity of clay.

Contemporary English Version
As it crawls through the mud, its sharp and spiny hide tears the ground apart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.

English Revised Version
His underparts are like sharp potsherds: he spreadeth as it were a threshing wain upon the mire.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery. It stretches out like a threshing sledge on the mud.

Good News Translation
The scales on his belly are like jagged pieces of pottery; they tear up the muddy ground like a threshing sledge.

International Standard Version
"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Sharpest potsherds are under him; He spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.

Literal Standard Version
Sharp points of clay [are] under him, | He spreads gold on the mire.

Majority Standard Bible
His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

New American Bible
Under him are sharp pottery fragments, spreading a threshing sledge upon the mire.

NET Bible
Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

New Revised Standard Version
Its underparts are like sharp potsherds; it spreads itself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

New Heart English Bible
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Webster's Bible Translation
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

World English Bible
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Young's Literal Translation
Under him are sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.

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Context
God's Power Shown in Leviathan
29A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance. 30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge. 31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.…

Cross References
Job 41:29
A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

Job 41:31
He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

Isaiah 41:15
Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.


Treasury of Scripture

Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things on the mire.

Sharp stones.

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Job 41
1. Of God's great power in the leviathan














(30) He spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.--Some render, "He spreadeth, as it were, a threshing-wain upon the mire." The statement is, that he not only can lie without inconvenience upon sharp-pointed things, but his own body presents a sharp surface to the mud he lies on.

Verse 30. - Sharp stones are under him; rather, jagged potsherds are under him; i.e. "his belly is covered with jagged scales" - a thing which is true of the crocodile, but scarcely of any other beast. He spreadeth sharp pointed things (rather, a threshing-wain, or a corn-drag) upon the mire. He leaves on the mud on which he has lain, i.e. an impression as of an Oriental threshing-wain, or corn-drag, which is "a thick plank of timber, stuck full on the under side, of flints or hard cutting stones arranged in the form of the palate or rough tongue of a cow" (Sir C. Fellows, 'Asia Minor,' p. 70). The mud-banks on which crocodiles have been lying are said to be scored all over with such impressions.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
His undersides
תַּ֭חְתָּיו (taḥ·tāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

are jagged
חַדּ֣וּדֵי (ḥad·dū·ḏê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2303: Sharpened, sharp, pointed

potsherds,
חָ֑רֶשׂ (ḥā·reś)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2789: Earthenware, earthen vessel, sherd, potsherd

spreading out
יִרְפַּ֖ד (yir·paḏ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7502: To spread, to refresh

the mud
טִֽיט׃ (ṭîṭ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2916: Mud, clay, calamity

like a threshing sledge.
חָר֣וּץ (ḥā·rūṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2742: Incised, incisive, a trench, gold, a threshing-sledge, determination, eager


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