Thematic Bible
Job 41:1 (show verse)
Or press down his tongue with a cord?
Job 41:2 (show verse)
“Can you put a rope [made] of rushes into his nose
Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
Job 41:3 (show verse)
“Will he make many supplications to you [begging to be spared]?
Or will he speak soft words to you [to coax you to treat him kindly]?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:4 (show verse)
“Will he make a covenant or an arrangement with you?
Will you take him for your servant forever?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:5 (show verse)
“Will you play with him as with a bird?
Or will you bind him [and put him on a leash] for your maidens?
Job 41:6 (show verse)
“Will traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:7 (show verse)
“Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?
Job 41:8 (show verse)
“Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle [with him]; you will not do such [an ill-advised thing] again!
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:9 (show verse)
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Will not one be overwhelmed even at the sight of him?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:10 (show verse)
“No one is so fierce [and foolhardy] that he dares to stir up Leviathan;
Who then is he who can stand before Me [or dares to contend with Me, the beast’s creator]?
Job 41:11 (show verse)
“Who has first given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine. [Who can have a claim against Me who made the unmastered beast?]
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:12 (show verse)
“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
Nor his mighty strength, nor his orderly frame.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:13 (show verse)
“Who can penetrate or strip off his outer armor?
Who can come to his jaws with a double bridle?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:14 (show verse)
“Who can open the doors (jaws) of his face?
Around his [open jaws and] teeth there is terror.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:15 (show verse)
“His strong scales are his pride,
Bound together as with a tight seal.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:16 (show verse)
“One is so near to another
That no air can come between them.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:17 (show verse)
“They are joined one to another;
They stick together and cannot be separated.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:18 (show verse)
“His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the [reddish] eyelids of the dawn.
Job 41:19 (show verse)
“Out of his mouth go burning torches,
And sparks of fire leap out.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:20 (show verse)
“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and [as from] burning rushes.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:21 (show verse)
“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:22 (show verse)
“In Leviathan’s neck resides strength,
And dismay and terror dance before him.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:23 (show verse)
“The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm on him and immobile [when he moves].
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:24 (show verse)
“His heart is as hard as a stone,
Indeed, as solid as a lower millstone.
Job 41:25 (show verse)
“When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:26 (show verse)
“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor [does] the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
Job 41:27 (show verse)
“He considers iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:28 (show verse)
“The arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are treated as stubble by him.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:29 (show verse)
“Clubs [also] are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin.
Job 41:30 (show verse)
“His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery;
He moves across and spreads out [grooves] like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks).
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:31 (show verse)
“He makes the deep water boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a [foaming] pot of ointment.
Job 41:32 (show verse)
“Behind him he makes a shining wake;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired [with foam].
Job 41:33 (show verse)
“Upon earth there is nothing like him—no equal exists,
A creature made without fear.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 41:34 (show verse)
“He looks on everything that is high [without terror];
He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job,