Job 41:2

Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole world under heaven is mine?

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

In Context

1Have you not seen him? and have you not wondered at the things said of him? Do you not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?

3I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist.

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Cross References

2 Kings 19:28Because you were angry against me, and your fierceness is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hooks in your nostrils, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly.

Isaiah 37:29And your wrath wherewith you have been enraged, and your rancour has come up to me; therefore I will put a hook in your nose, and a bit in your lips, and will turn you back by the way by which you came.

Matthew Henry on Job 41:2-11

Description of Leviathan. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? 2 Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? 3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? 4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? 5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? 6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part… Read the whole commentary →

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