Job 41:1

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The 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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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 74:14 : 14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you fed him to the people who live along the coast.
  • Ps 104:26 : 26 The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 At that time the LORD will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.
  • Job 3:8 : 8 Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

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  • Job 41:2-8
    7 verses
    93%

    2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

    3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words?

    4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

    5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?

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

    7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

    8If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight. Do not do it again!

  • 1At that time the LORD will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.

  • Ps 104:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.

    26The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

  • Ps 74:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water.

    14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you fed him to the people who live along the coast.

    15You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

  • 4I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales. I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways, and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.

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

  • 16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

  • Job 41:13-16
    4 verses
    71%

    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;

    16each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them.

  • Job 39:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

    11Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

  • 12Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?

  • Hab 1:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

    15The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy.

  • 31Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

  • Job 40:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

    9Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

  • Job 38:33-34
    2 verses
    70%

    33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

  • 31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment,

  • 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.”

  • 15The Description of Behemoth“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

  • Job 39:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19“Do you give the horse its strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

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

  • 13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

  • Job 40:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

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

    24Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?

  • Job 11:7-8
    2 verses
    68%

    7“Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?

    8It is higher than the heavens– what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol– what can you know?

  • 28Because 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.”

  • 2The Sovereign LORD confirms this oath by his own holy character:“Certainly the time is approaching when you will be carried away in baskets, every last one of you in fishermen’s pots.

  • 8Or speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea declare to you.

  • 12By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

  • 4To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

  • 10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?

  • 2Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?

  • 17It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

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

  • 17Jonah Prays(2:1) The LORD sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.