Job 41:1-10

1 "Job, can you pull the leviathan out of the sea with a fish hook? Can you tie down its tongue with a rope?

2 Can you put a rope through its nose? Can you stick a hook through its jaw?

3 Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak gently to you?

4 Will it make an agreement with you? Can you make it your slave for life?

5 Can you make a pet out of it like a bird? Can you put it on a leash for your young women?

6 Will traders offer you something for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

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?

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.