Job 41:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² Can you put a rope in his nose, or pierce his 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.

Job 41:2 Cross References

2 Kings 19:28

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

Job 41:3

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

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

Proverbs 21:30

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

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

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, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.’