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Job 40:17

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

He moveth his tail like a cedar. The tail of the hippopotamus is remarkably short and thick. It only bends slightly, being stiff and unyielding, like the stem of a cedar. The sinews of his stones (rather, of his thighs) are wrapped together; or, interwoven one with another (so Professor Lee and Mr.

Houghton).

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