Job 41:8-18

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.

12 "Now I will speak about the leviathan's legs. I will talk about its strength and its graceful body.

13 Who can strip off its outer coat? Who would try to put a bridle on it?

14 Who dares to open its jaws? Its mouth is filled with terrifying teeth.

15 Its back has rows of shields that are close together.

16 Each one is so close to the next one that not even air can pass between them.

17 They are joined tightly to one another. They stick together and can't be forced apart.

18 The leviathan's snorting throws out flashes of light. Its eyes shine like the first light of day.

Job 41:8-18 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.