Job 41:19

19 De su boca salen hachas de fuego, centellas de fuego proceden

Job 41:19 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:19

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap
out.
] Which, though hyperbolical expressions, have some foundation for them in the latter; in the vast quantities of water thrown out by the whale, through its mouth or hole in its frontispiece, which in the sun may look like lamps and sparks of fire, as before observed; and especially in the "orcae", or whales with teeth, which eject in the same way an oily mucus, or the fat liquor of the brain, commonly called spermaceti, which may appear more bright and glittering. Ovid ^F20 says much the same of the boar as is here said of the leviathan.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 "Fulmen ab ore venit; frondesque adflatibus ardent". Metamorph. c. 8. Fab. 4.

Job 41:19 In-Context

17 Pegado está el uno con el otro, están trabados entre sí, que no se pueden apartar

18 Con sus estornudos encienden lumbre, y sus ojos son como los párpados del alba

19 De su boca salen hachas de fuego, centellas de fuego proceden

20 De sus narices sale humo como de una olla o caldero que hierve

21 Su aliento enciende los carbones, y de su boca sale llama