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Job 41:20

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or caldron. In which flesh or anything else is boiling. It is observed that there is a likeness between the crocodile and the river horse, and particularly in their breathing : and of the former it is remarked , that its nostrils are very large and open, and that they breathe out a fiery smoke, as out of a furnace.

Plin. l. 48. c. 8. Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 8. c. 2. Achilles Statius & Eustathius, apud Scheuchzer: ut supra. (vol. 4. p. 849.

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