Job 41:1
I will not rouse him, as the cruel would do, for who is able to withstand my countenance?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 9:10and with every living soul that is with you: as much with the birds as with the cattle and all the animals of the earth that have gone forth from the ark, and with all the wild beasts of the earth.
Job 40:24Will you play with him as with a bird, or tether him for your handmaids?
Psalms 104:26He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, the one whom he chose.
Matthew Henry on Job 41:1
The description here given of the leviathan, a very large, strong, formidable fish, or water-animal, is designed yet further to convince Job of his own impotency, and of God's omnipotence, that he might be humbled for his folly in making so bold with him as he had done. I. To convince Job of his own weakness he is here challenged to subdue and tame this leviathan if he can, and make himself master of him ( ver. 1-9 ), and, since he cannot do this, he must own himself utterly unable to stand before the great God,… Read the whole commentary →