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Can You Draw Out Leviathan?

41 [a]Can you draw out [b](A)Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down its tongue with a cord?
Can you (B)put a [c]rope in its nose
Or pierce its jaw with a [d]hook?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:1 Ch 40:25 in Heb
  2. Job 41:1 Crocodile, dinosaur, or other; but cf. notes on Ps 74:14; 104:26; Is 27:1
  3. Job 41:2 Lit rope of rushes
  4. Job 41:2 Or thorn, ring

41 [a]“Can you pull in Leviathan(A) with a fishhook(B)
    or tie down its tongue with a rope?
Can you put a cord through its nose(C)
    or pierce its jaw with a hook?(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:1 In Hebrew texts 41:1-8 is numbered 40:25-32, and 41:9-34 is numbered 41:1-26.