Job 41:9

9 No one can possibly control the leviathan. Just looking at it will terrify you.

Job 41:9 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:9

Behold, the hope of him is in vain
Of getting the mastery over him, or of taking him; and yet both crocodiles and whales have been taken; nor is the taking of them to be despaired of; but it seems the "orca", or the whale with many teeth, has never been taken and killed ^F15;

shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?
the sight of a whale is terrible to mariners, lest their ships should be overturned by it; and some have been so frightened at the sight of a crocodile as to lose their senses: and we read of one that was greatly terrified at seeing the shadow of one; and the creature before mentioned is supposed to be much more terrible ^F16.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Vid. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 846.
F16 Scheuchzer. ib.

Job 41:9 In-Context

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

8 If you touch it, it will fight you. Then you will remember never to touch it again!

9 No one can possibly control the leviathan. Just looking at it will terrify you.

10 No one dares to wake it up. So who can possibly stand up to me?

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