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Job 41:26

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41:26Whoever strikes it with a sword38

will have no effect,39

nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

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Footnotes

  1. 38 This is the clearest reading, following A. B. Davidson, Job, 285. The versions took different readings of the construction.
  2. 39 The verb קוּם (qum, “stand”) with בְּלִי (béli, “not”) has the sense of “does not hold firm,” or “gives way.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,

nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The sword that reaches it has no effect,

nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The sword that reaches him will have no effect,

nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

NLTNew Living Translation

No sword can stop it,

no spear, dart, or javelin.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Reaching it with the sword does not avail,

nor with the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

KJV 1900King James Version

The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold:

The spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.