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Job 41:11(40:25) “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 27:1Job 3:8Ps 104:26Ps 74:14
Job 41:22Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 37:29Ezek 29:4-52 Kgs 19:28Isa 27:1
Job 41:33Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 30:10Prov 15:1Prov 18:23Prov 25:15Ps 55:21
Job 41:44Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 21:6Deut 15:171 Kgs 20:31-34Gen 1:28Ps 8:5-6
Job 41:55Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 28:11Judg 16:25-30
Job 41:66Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 14:11
Job 41:77Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Job 41:88If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight. Do not do it again!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 20:112 Kgs 10:4Luke 14:31-32
Job 41:99(41:1) See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 3:11Deut 28:34Isa 28:19Luke 21:11
Job 41:1010Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 9:41 Cor 10:22Gen 49:9Jer 12:5Job 3:8Job 40:9Num 24:9Ps 2:11-12Ezek 8:17-18
Job 41:1111Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 11:35Ps 24:11 Chr 29:11-14Job 35:7Deut 10:14Ps 50:121 Cor 10:26Exod 19:5Job 22:2-31 Cor 10:28
Job 41:1212I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 1:25
Job 41:1313Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:28Jas 3:3Ps 32:9
Job 41:1414Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 7:7Eccl 12:4Job 38:10Prov 30:14Ps 57:4Ps 58:6
Job 41:1515Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 9:23Rev 5:2-3Rev 5:5
Job 41:1616each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Job 41:1717They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Job 41:1818Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 3:9Rev 1:14
Job 41:1919Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 18:8
Job 41:2020Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 1:13-14
Job 41:2121Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 18:8Hab 3:5Isa 30:33Ps 18:12
Job 41:2222Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:55-57Hos 13:14Job 39:19Job 40:16
Job 41:2323The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Job 41:2424Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 48:4Jer 5:3Zech 7:12
Job 41:2525When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jonah 1:4-6Ps 107:28
Job 41:2626Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 39:21-24
Job 41:2727It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Job 41:2828Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 1:10Job 39:7
Job 41:2929A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 26:14
Job 41:3030Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 41:15
Job 41:3131It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Job 41:3232It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 1:15Gen 1:2Gen 15:15Gen 25:8Gen 42:38Job 28:14Job 38:16Job 38:30Prov 16:31Prov 20:29
Job 41:3333The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 40:19
Job 41:3434It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 29:3Ps 73:6Job 26:12Job 28:8Exod 5:2Isa 28:1Ps 73:10Rev 12:1-3Rev 13:2Rev 20:2-3
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