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Themes in Job 41

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Themes in Job 41

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Job 41:1 (show verse)

Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook

or tie his tongue down with a rope?

Fishes » Mentioned in scripture » Leviathan

Job 41:2 (show verse)

Can you put a cord through his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Thorn » Used » As an awl

Job 41:3 (show verse)

Will he beg you for mercy
or speak softly to you?

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:4 (show verse)

Will he make a covenant with you
so that you can take him as a slave forever?

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:5 (show verse)

Can you play with him like a bird
or put him on a leash for your girls?

Birds » Domesticated

Job 41:6 (show verse)

Will traders bargain for him
or divide him among the merchants?

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:7 (show verse)

Can you fill his hide with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?

Fish » Caught » Spears
Fishes » Taken with » Spears
Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Weapons

Job 41:8 (show verse)

Lay a hand on him.
You will remember the battle
and never repeat it!

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:9 (show verse)

Any hope of capturing him proves false.

Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:10 (show verse)

No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan;
who then can stand against Me?

Leviathan » Illustrative of » Power and severity of God
Stand? Who can » Sinful man cannot stand approved before God

Job 41:11 (show verse)

Who confronted Me, that I should repay him?
Everything under heaven belongs to Me.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:12 (show verse)

I cannot be silent about his limbs,
his power, and his graceful proportions.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:13 (show verse)

Who can strip off his outer covering?
Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:14 (show verse)

Who can open his jaws,
surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

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Job 41:15 (show verse)

His pride is in his rows of scales,
closely sealed together.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:16 (show verse)

One scale is so close to another
that no air can pass between them.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:17 (show verse)

They are joined to one another,
so closely connected they cannot be separated.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:18 (show verse)

His snorting flashes with light,
while his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Light » Described as » Shining
Morning » First dawning of, called the eyelids of the morning

Job 41:19 (show verse)

Flaming torches shoot from his mouth;
fiery sparks fly out!

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:20 (show verse)

Smoke billows from his nostrils
as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.

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Job 41:21 (show verse)

His breath sets coals ablaze,
and flames pour out of his mouth.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:22 (show verse)

Strength resides in his neck,
and dismay dances before him.

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Job 41:23 (show verse)

The folds of his flesh are joined together,
solid as metal and immovable.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:24 (show verse)

His heart is as hard as a rock,
as hard as a lower millstone!

Mill » Upper and lower stones of
Mills » Stones used in » Hard
Millstone » Figurative of a hard heart

Job 41:25 (show verse)

When Leviathan rises, the mighty are terrified;
they withdraw because of his thrashing.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:26 (show verse)

The sword that reaches him will have no effect,
nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

Spears » Different kinds of » Darts

Job 41:27 (show verse)

He regards iron as straw,
and bronze as rotten wood.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:28 (show verse)

No arrow can make him flee;
slingstones become like stubble to him.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:29 (show verse)

A club is regarded as stubble,
and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.

Dart » A light javelin
Spears » Different kinds of » Darts

Job 41:30 (show verse)

His undersides are jagged potsherds,
spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:31 (show verse)

He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron;
he makes the sea like an ointment jar.

the Sea » Called the » Deep
the Sea » Caused to foam by leviathan

Job 41:32 (show verse)

He leaves a shining wake behind him;
one would think the deep had gray hair!

the Sea » Caused to foam by leviathan

Job 41:33 (show verse)

He has no equal on earth—
a creature devoid of fear!

No Themes for this verse.

Job 41:34 (show verse)

He surveys everything that is haughty;
he is king over all the proud beasts.

Names » Of the wicked » Children of pride
Titles and names of the wicked » Children of pride