Job 41:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish hook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? Or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

CAN YOU draw out the leviathan (the crocodile) with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

American Standard Version (1901)

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

Common English Bible

Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, restrain his tongue with a rope?

Catholic Public Domain Version

I will not rouse him, as the cruel would do, for who is able to withstand my countenance?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel. For who can resist my countenance?

Job 41:1 Cross References

Genesis 9:10

and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

Job 3:8

Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan

Job 40:24

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

Psalm 104:26

There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to take his pastime therein.

Psalm 74:14

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, Thou gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.