Job 41:1
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
Majority Standard Bible
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 put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Cross References
Genesis 9:10and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.
Job 40:24Can anyone capture him as he looks on, or pierce his nose with a snare?
Psalms 104:26There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
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 →