Job 41:11-21

11 Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.

12 His breath is live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

13 And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.

14 The flesh also of his body is joined together: pours upon him, he shall not be moved.

15 His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.

16 And when he turns, a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.

17 If spears should come against him, will effect nothing, the spear or the breast-plate.

18 For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.

19 The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass.

20 Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.

21 His lair is sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense clay.

Job 41:11-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 41

A large description is here given of the leviathan, from the difficulty and danger of taking it, from whence it is inferred that none can stand before God, Job 41:1-10; from the several parts of him, his face, teeth, scales, eyes, mouth and neck, flesh and heart, Job 41:11-24; and from various wonderful terrible things said of him, and ascribed to him, Job 41:25-34.