Job 41:7

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

Job 41:7 in Other Translations

7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

7 Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon?

7 Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion, or drive harpoons into his huge head?

7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears?

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

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

7 Can you fill its body with harpoons? Can you throw fishing spears into its head?

Job 41:7 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:7

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with
fish spears?
] This seems not so well to agree with the whale; whose skin, and the several parts of his body, are to be pierced with harpoons and lances, such as fishermen use in taking whales; and their flesh to be cut in pieces with their knives: but better with the crocodile, whose skin is so hard, and so closely set with scales, that it is impenetrable; (See Gill on Ezekiel 29:4). Or if the words are rendered, as by some, "wilt thou fill ships with his skin? and the fishermen's boat with his head" ^F14? it makes also against the whale; for this is done continually, ships of different nations are loaded every year with its skin, flesh, and the bones of its head.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Vid. Schultens in loc.

Job 41:7 In-Context

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.

Cross References

• 1. S Job 40:24