Job 41:11

11 Who can confront me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven belongs to me!

Job 41:11 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:11

Who hath prevented me, that one should repay [him]?
&c.] First given me something that was not my own, and so laid me under an obligation to him to make a return. The apostle seems to have respect to this passage, ( Romans 11:35 ) ;

[whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine;
the fowls of the air, the cattle on a thousand hills, the fulness of the earth; gold, silver: precious stones All things are made by him, are his property and at his dispose; and therefore no man on earth can give him what he has not a prior right unto; see ( Psalms 24:1 ) ( 50:10-12 ) .

Job 41:11 In-Context

9 Certainly, any hope [of defeating it] is a false hope. Doesn't the sight of it overwhelm you?

10 No one is brave enough to provoke Leviathan. Then who can stand in front of me?

11 Who can confront me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven belongs to me!

12 "I will not be silent about Leviathan's limbs, its strength, or its graceful form.

13 Who can skin its hide? Who can approach it with a harness?