Job 40:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ “It is the first of the great acts of God; only its Maker can approach it with the sword.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ He is the chief of the ways of God: He that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ [The hippopotamus] is the first [in magnitude and power] of the works of God [in animal life]; [only] He Who made him provides him with his [swordlike tusks, or only God Who made him can bring near His sword to master him].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ He is the chief of the ways of God: He only that made him giveth him his sword.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ He is the first of God’s acts; only his maker can come near him with a sword.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ He will seize him through his eyes, as if with a hook, and he will bore through his nostrils, as if with stakes.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.

Job 40:19 Cross References

Job 26:13

By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Job 40:15

“Look at Behemoth, which I made just as I made you; it eats grass like an ox.

Job 40:18

Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

Job 41:33

On earth it has no equal, a creature without fear.

Psalm 104:24

O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

Psalm 7:12

If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

Isaiah 27:1

On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.