Job 40:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 41:1-2 : 1 The Description of Leviathan(40:25)“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? 2 Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

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    23If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.

  • Job 41:1-3
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    1The Description of Leviathan(40:25)“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?

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  • Job 41:18-22
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    18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.

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    20Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.

    21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

    22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it.

  • Job 41:6-7
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    73%

    6Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

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  • Prov 7:22-23
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    22Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare

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  • Job 18:8-10
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    72%

    8For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.

    9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.

    10A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.

  • Job 39:20-25
    6 verses
    72%

    20Do you make it leap like a locust? Its proud neighing is terrifying!

    21It paws the ground in the valley, exulting mightily, it goes out to meet the weapons.

    22It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not shy away from the sword.

    23On it the quiver rattles; the lance and javelin flash.

    24In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet is blown.

    25At the sound of the trumpet, it says,‘Aha!’ And from a distance it catches the scent of battle, the thunderous shouting of commanders, and the battle cries.

  • Job 28:10-11
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    71%

    10He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

    11He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

  • Ps 10:9
    71%

    9He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

  • Job 39:29
    71%

    29From there it spots its prey, its eyes gaze intently from a distance.

  • Amos 3:5
    70%

    5Does a bird swoop down into a trap on the ground if there is no bait? Does a trap spring up from the ground unless it has surely caught something?

  • Job 41:13-15
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    13Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor?

    14Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.

    15Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal;

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    23God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

  • Job 20:13
    69%

    13if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,

  • Job 34:21
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    21For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

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    24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

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    29Because you rage against me and the uproar you create has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came.”

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    16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.

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    39“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

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    7a hidden path no bird of prey knows– no falcon’s eye has spotted it.

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    12If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him,‘What are you doing?’

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    7From the stream along the road he drinks; then he lifts up his head.

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    11For he knows deceitful men; when he sees evil, will he not consider it?

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    6ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell,

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    20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

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    9(41:1) See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.

  • Isa 30:28
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    28His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.

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    30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

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    30The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips has accomplished evil.