Job 41:1-6

1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}?

2 Can you put a rope in its nose? Or can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?

3 Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you?

4 Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?

5 Will you play with it as [with] birds and put it on a leash for your girls?

6 Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen?

Job 41:1-6 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Job 41:1-34 in the English Bible is 40:25-41:26 in the Hebrew Bible
• [b]. Hebrew "And"
• [c]. Literally "with a cord can you press down its tongue"
• [d]. Hebrew "And"