Job 41:2-12

2 Can you put a ring in his nose or pierce his jaw with a barb?
3 Will he entreat you at length? Will he speak with you softly?
4 Will he agree with you to be your slave forever?
5 Will you play with him as you would with a bird or keep him on a string to amuse your little girls?
6 Will a group of fishermen turn him into a banquet? Will they divide him among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his skin with darts or his head with fish-spears?
8 If you lay your hand on him, you won't forget the fight, and you'll never do it again!
9 "Look, any hope [of capturing him] is futile -one would fall prostrate at the very sight of him.
10 No one is fierce enough to rouse him, so who can stand up to me?
11 Who has given me anything and made me pay it back? Everything belongs to me under all of heaven.
12 "I have more to say about his limbs, his strong talk, and his matchless strength.

Job 41:2-12 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.

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