Job 41:1-10

1 "Can you catch the leviathann on afish hook or tie its tongue down with a rope?

2 Can you put a cord through its nose or a hook in its jaw?

3 Will it keep begging you for mercy and speak to you with gentle words?

4 Will it make an agreement with you and let you take it as your slave for life?

5 Can you make a pet of the leviathan as you would a bird or put it on a leash for your girls?

6 Will traders try to bargain with you for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

7 Can you stick darts all over its skin or fill its head with fishing spears?

8 If you put one hand on it, you will never forget the battle, and you will never do it again!

9 There is no hope of defeating it; just seeing it overwhelms people.

10 No one is brave enough to make it angry, so who would be able to stand up against me?

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.