Job 41:1-10

1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down its tongue with a cord?

2 Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

3 Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you?

4 Will it make a covenant with you to be taken as your servant forever?

5 Will you play with it as with a bird, or will you put it on leash for your girls?

6 Will traders bargain over it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

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

8 Lay hands on it; think of the battle; you will not do it again!

9 Any hope of capturing it will be disappointed; were not even the gods overwhelmed at the sight of it?

10 No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up. Who can stand before it?

Job 41:1-10 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Ch 40.25 in Heb
• [b]. Or [the crocodile]
• [c]. Ch 41.1 in Heb
• [d]. Heb [of it]
• [e]. Cn Compare Symmachus Syr: Heb [one is]
• [f]. Heb [me]