Job 41:1
“Can you pull out Leviathan with a hook? Can you tie its mouth shut?
Free Bible 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
2Can you thread a rope through its nose? Can you pass a hook through its jaw?
Cross References
Genesis 9:10and with all the animals around you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals of the earth—every animal that accompanied you on the ark.
Job 40:24No one can catch it while it is watching, or pierce its nose with a noose.”
Psalms 104:26Ships sail there, and Leviathan, that you made to play in it.
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 →