KJV King James Version
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
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Job 41:2
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
WEB World English Bible
Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
ASV American Standard Version
Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw?
Surrounding context — Job 41
1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?
2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft [words] unto thee?
4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
5 Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
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Isaiah 37:29Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.Ezekiel 29:4-5But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.2 Kings 19:28Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.Isaiah 27:1In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.
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