Job 41:2

American Standard Version (1901)

Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 37:29 : 29 Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
  • Ezek 29:4-5 : 4 And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales; and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, with all the fish of thy rivers which stick unto thy scales. 5 And I will cast thee forth into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given thee for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.
  • 2 Kgs 19:28 : 28 Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.

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    1Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

  • Job 41:3-8
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    3Will he make many supplications unto thee? Or will he speak soft words unto thee?

    4Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?

    5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

    6Will the bands [of fishermen] make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants?

    7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears?

    8Lay thy hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no more.

  • Job 40:23-24
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    23Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.

    24Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?

  • Isa 37:29
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    29Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

  • Job 41:13-16
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    13Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

    14Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.

    15[ His] strong scales are [his] pride, Shut up together [as with] a close seal.

    16One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.

  • 2 Kgs 19:28
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    28Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

  • Job 39:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19Hast thou given the horse [his] might? Hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?

    20Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrible.

  • Ezek 29:4
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    4And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales; and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, with all the fish of thy rivers which stick unto thy scales.

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    9Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?

    10Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

    11Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave to him thy labor?

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    39Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

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    1In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.

  • Amos 4:2
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    2The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks.

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    12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

  • Ps 74:14-15
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    26There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to play therein.

  • Job 41:18-22
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    19Out of his mouth go burning torches, And sparks of fire leap forth.

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    9Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

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    16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

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    10None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me?

  • Job 38:31
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    31Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion?

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    34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?

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    31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

  • Hab 1:14
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    14and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

  • Job 40:17-18
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    17He moveth his tail like a cedar: The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

    18His bones are [as] tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.

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  • Job 40:15
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    15Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as thee; He eateth grass as an ox.

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    17And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.