Job 41:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 74:14 : 14 The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.
  • Ps 104:26 : 26 There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.
  • Job 3:8 : 8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

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  • Job 41:2-8
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    93%

    2Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

    3I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

    4Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

    5Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

    6His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

    7One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

    8They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.

  • Isa 27:1
    76%

    1In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.

  • Ps 104:25-26
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    76%

    25There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.

    26There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.

  • Ps 74:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.

    14The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.

    15You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

  • Ezek 29:4
    73%

    4And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin.

  • Job 38:16
    72%

    16Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • Job 41:13-16
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    71%

    13Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him.

    14The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved.

    15His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.

    16When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

  • Job 39:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

    11He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

  • Job 7:12
    71%

    12Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

  • Hab 1:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

    15He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.

  • Job 38:31
    71%

    31Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

  • Job 40:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

    9Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

  • Job 38:33-34
    2 verses
    70%

    33Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

    34Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

  • Isa 37:29
    70%

    29Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

  • Job 40:15
    69%

    15He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.

  • Job 39:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

    20For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

  • Job 15:13
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    13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • Job 40:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

    24Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

  • Job 11:7-8
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    7Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

    8They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

  • 2 Kgs 19:28
    68%

    28Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

  • Amos 4:2
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    2The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.

  • Job 12:8
    68%

    8Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

  • Job 26:12
    68%

    12By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

  • Job 26:4
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    4To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

  • Job 41:10
    67%

    10Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

  • Job 39:2
    67%

    2When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

  • Job 40:17
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    17He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.

  • Job 41:21
    67%

    21Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.