Job 41:23-33

23 The folds of its flesh stick to each other. They are solid and cannot be moved.

24 Its chest is solid like a rock, solid like a millstone.

25 "The mighty are afraid when Leviathan rises. Broken down, they draw back.

26 A sword may strike it but not pierce it. Neither will a spear, lance, or dart.

27 It considers iron to be like straw and bronze to be like rotten wood.

28 An arrow won't make it run away. Stones from a sling turn to dust against it.

29 It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin.

30 Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery. It stretches out like a threshing sledge on the mud.

31 It makes the deep sea boil like a pot. It stirs up the ocean like a boiling kettle.

32 It leaves a shining path behind it so that the sea appears to have silvery hair.

33 Nothing on land can compare to it. It was made fearless.

Job 41:23-33 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.