Job 41:1 {40:20}
Good News Translation
Can you catch Leviathan with a fishhook or tie his tongue down with a rope?

New Revised Standard Version
“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down its tongue with a cord?

Contemporary English Version
Can you catch a sea monster by using a fishhook? Can you tie its mouth shut with a rope?

New American Bible
Can you lead Leviathan about with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?

leviathan.

Job 3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

*marg:

Psalm 74:14 Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.

Psalm 104:26 There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast formed to play therein.

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

lettest down.

Context
God's Power Shown in Leviathan
1Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?2Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?…
Cross References
Job 3:8
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

Job 40:24
In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.

Psalm 74:14
Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.

Psalm 104:26
There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast formed to play therein.

Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

Job 40:24
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