Job 41:24 · KJV
“His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether {millstone}.”
— Job 41:24
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. {flakes: Heb. fallings}
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
Job 41 — Context
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. {is turned into joy: Heb. rejoiceth}
23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. {flakes: Heb. fallings}
24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether {millstone}.
25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. {habergeon: or, breastplate}
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, {are} not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, {but} they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Zechariah 7:12
Yea, they made their hearts {as} an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. {by: Heb. by the hand of}
Isaiah 48:4
Because I knew that thou {art} obstinate, and thy neck {is} an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; {obstinate: Heb. hard}