Job 41:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

Can you 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 your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
  • Ezek 29:4-5 : 4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales. 5 I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you shall fall on the open field; you shall not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
  • 2 Kgs 19:28 : 28 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 "Can you draw out Leviathan{Leviathan is a name for a crocodile or similar creature.} with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

  • Job 41:3-8
    6 verses
    85%

    3 Will he make many petitions to you? Or will he speak soft words to you?

    4 Will he make a covenant with you, That you should take him for a servant forever?

    5 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

    6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?

    7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears?

    8 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

  • Job 40:23-24
    2 verses
    77%

    23 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.

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

  • 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

  • Job 41:13-16
    4 verses
    75%

    13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

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

    15 Strong scales are his pride, Shut up together with a close seal.

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

  • 28 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

  • Job 39:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19 "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

    20 Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

  • 4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.

  • Job 39:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9 "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

    10 Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

    11 Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

  • 39 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

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

  • 2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, And the last of you with fish hooks.

  • 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That you put a guard over me?

  • Ps 74:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

    15 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

  • 26 There the ships go, And leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

  • Job 41:18-22
    5 verses
    69%

    18 His sneezing flashes forth light, His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

    19 Out of his mouth go burning torches, Sparks of fire leap forth.

    20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, As of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

    21 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

    22 In his neck there is strength. Terror dances before him.

  • 9 Or have you an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

  • 16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

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

  • 31 "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loosen the cords of Orion?

  • 34 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

  • 13 That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?

  • 31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

  • 14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

  • Job 40:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17 He moves his tail like a cedar: The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

    18 His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

  • 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?

  • 15 "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

  • 4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, That he enters with you into judgment?

  • 12 He stirs up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

  • 2 Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?

  • 13 Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

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