Job 41:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Can you put a rope in its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Canst thou put an hook into his nose? Or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Can you put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook or a spike?

American Standard Version (1901)

² Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Common English Bible

² Can you put a cord through his nose, pierce his jaw with a barb?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Who has given to me beforehand, so that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.

Job 41:2 Cross References

Isaiah 37:29

Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

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.

2 Kings 19:28

Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

Job 41:3

Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you?

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.