Job 40:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 spirit the heavens are garnished; His hand hath pierced the swift serpent.

Job 40:15

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; He eateth grass as all ox.

Job 40:18

His bones are as tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.

Job 41:33

Upon earth there is not his like, That is made without fear.

Psalm 104:24

O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.

Psalm 7:12

If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

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.