Job 41:24

22 Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

23 The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

25 When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

26 The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
KJV
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
WEB
His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
ASV
His heart is as firm as a stone; Yea, firm as the nether millstone.
DARBY
His heart is firm as a stone, yea, firm as the nether [millstone].
BLB
His heart is as firm as a stone, even as firm as a lower millstone.
ÅB
Dens hjerte er fast som stein, fast som den underste kvernsten.
OTB
Hans hjerte er hardt som en stein,
Ja, så hardt som en nedre kvernstein.
B1930
Dens hjerte er fast som sten, fast som den underste kvernsten.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 48:4

    For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

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  • Jeremiah 5:3

    O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

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  • Zechariah 7:12

    They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

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