Job 41:25-34

25 {When it raises itself}, [the] mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.

26 Reaching it [with the] sword does not avail, [nor] [with the] spear, [the] dart, or [the] javelin.

27 It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

28 {An arrow} will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.

29 Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at [the] short sword's rattle.

30 "Its underparts [are] shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud [like] a threshing sledge.

31 It makes [the] deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes [the] sea like a pot of ointment.

32 Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair.

33 "{On the ground it has no equal}-- a creature without fear.

34 It observes all [the] lofty; it [is] king {over all that are proud}."

Job 41:25-34 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]. Literally "From his/its rising up"
• [b]. Hebrew "and"
• [c]. Literally "A son of a bow"
• [d]. Literally "it lights up [the] path"
• [e]. Literally "There is not on [the] ground its likeness"
• [f]. Hebrew "the"
• [g]. Literally "over all sons of pride"