Job 41:8-11

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.

Job 41:8-11 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 6

  • 1. S Job 3:8
  • 2. Job 40:16
  • 3. S Job 3:8
  • 4. S 2 Chronicles 20:6; S Isaiah 46:5; Jeremiah 50:44; Revelation 6:17
  • 5. S Job 34:33; Romans 11:35
  • 6. 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
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