Job 41:4-14

4 Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?

5 Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?

6 Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

8 If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!

9 Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.

10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me?

11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.

12 “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs, its strength and its graceful form.

13 Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor^[a] ?

14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?

Job 41:4-14 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.

Cross References

• 1. S Exodus 21:6
• 2. S Job 40:24
• 3. S Job 3:8
• 4. Job 40:16
• 5. S Job 3:8
• 6. S 2 Chronicles 20:6; S Isaiah 46:5; Jeremiah 50:44; Revelation 6:17
• 7. S Job 34:33; Romans 11:35
• 8. Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 10:14; Psalms 24:1; Psalms 50:12; S Joshua 3:11; S Job 10:4; Acts 4:24; 1 Corinthians 10:26
• 9. Job 40:18
• 10. S Job 39:11
• 11. S Job 30:11; S Job 39:10
• 12. Psalms 22:13

Footnotes

• [a]. Septuagint; Hebrew "double bridle"