Commentary for Job 40:31

הַֽתְמַלֵּ֣א בְשֻׂכּ֣וֹת עוֹר֑וֹ וּבְצִלְצַ֖ל דָּגִ֣ים רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? Or his head with fish-spears?

Will you fulfill Will you fulfill your desire and make tents of his skin?

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or a shade of fishes of his head Will you make from his head a shade of fish? This is a repetitious expression.

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a shade Heb. צִלְצַל, a tent of fish. A tent made from his head is called a shade of fish because it is made from him.

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