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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Job 41:13

Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Leviathan;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Coat of Mail;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bit, Bridle;   Leviathan;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Bridle;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bit and Bridle;   Double;   Leviathan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Who can strip off his outer covering?Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?
Hebrew Names Version
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
King James Version
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
English Standard Version
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?
New Century Version
No one can tear off its outer hide or poke through its double armor.
New English Translation
Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor?
Amplified Bible
"Who can penetrate or strip off his outer armor? Who can come to his jaws with a double bridle?
New American Standard Bible
"Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can pierce his double armor?
World English Bible
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle?
Legacy Standard Bible
Who can strip off its outer armor?Who can come with its doubled bridle?
Contemporary English Version
Who could strip off its armor or bring it under control with a harness?
Complete Jewish Bible
His breath sets coals ablaze; flames pour from his mouth.
Darby Translation
Who can uncover the surface of his garment? who can come within his double jaws?
Easy-to-Read Version
No one can pierce his skin. It is like armor!
George Lamsa Translation
I will not keep silence because of his power, and the might of his sinews.
Good News Translation
No one can tear off his outer coat or pierce the armor he wears.
Lexham English Bible
Who can strip off its outer covering? Who can penetrate its double harness?
Literal Translation
Who can take off the face of his covering; who can come with his double bridle?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who lifteth him vp and stripeth him out of his clothes, or who taketh him by the bytt of his brydle?
American Standard Version
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
Bible in Basic English
Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
King James Version (1611)
Who can discouer the face of his garment? or who can come to him, with his double bridle?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who can discouer the face of his garment? or who shall come to him with a double brydle?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
English Revised Version
Who can strip off his outer garment? who shall come within his double bridle?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who schal schewe the face of his clothing, and who schal entre in to the myddis of his mouth?
Update Bible Version
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come inside his jaws?
Webster's Bible Translation
Who can discover the face of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle?
New King James Version
Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?
New Living Translation
Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?
New Life Bible
Who can take off his outside clothing? Who can get through his hard skin?
New Revised Standard
Who can strip off its outer garment? Who can penetrate its double coat of mail?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who hath removed his outer garment, through his double row of teeth, who would enter?
Douay-Rheims Bible
(41-4) Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
Revised Standard Version
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who can penetrate his double coat of mail?
Young's Literal Translation
Who hath uncovered the face of his clothing? Within his double bridle who doth enter?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can come within his double mail?

Contextual Overview

11Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine. 12I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and his graceful form. 13Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?14Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth? 15His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together. 16One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them. 17They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated. 18His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn. 19Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth! 20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with: or, within

double: 2 Kings 19:28, Psalms 32:9, James 3:3

Cross-References

Genesis 40:12
Joseph replied, "This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.
Genesis 41:20
Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
Genesis 41:22
In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.
Jeremiah 1:10
See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant."
Ezekiel 43:3
The vision I saw was like the one I had seen when He came to destroy the city, and like the ones I had seen by the River Kebar. I fell facedown,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who can discover the face of his garment?.... Or rather uncover it? Not the sea, which Mr. Broughton represents as the garment of the whale; who can strip him of it, or take him out of that, and bring him to land? which, though not impossible, is difficult: but either the garment of his face, the large bulk or prominence that hangs over his eyes; or rather his skin. Who dare venture to take off his skin, or flay him alive? or take off the scaly coat of the crocodile, which is like a coat of mail to him, and which he never of himself casts off, as serpents do?

[or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle? either go within his jaws, which, when opened, are like a double bridle; or go near and open his jaws, and put a curb bridle into them, and lead, direct, and rule him at pleasure. This is not to be done either to the whale or crocodile; yet the Tentyritae had a way of getting upon the back of the crocodile; and by putting a stick across its mouth, as it opened it to bite them, and so holding both the ends of it with the right and left hands, as with a bridle, brought them to land, as Pliny s relates; and so the Nereides are represented as sitting on the backs of whales by Theocritus t.

s Ut supra. (Plin. l. 8. c. 25.) t Idyll. 19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who can discern the face of his garment? - literally, “Who can reveal the face, that is, the appearance, of his garment?” This “garment” is undoubtedly his skin. The meaning seems to be, “His hard and rough skin is his defense, and no one can so strip off that as to have access to him.” The word rendered “discover” (גלה gâlâh) means “to make naked”; then “to reveal”; and the idea is, that he cannot be made naked of that covering, or deprived of it so that one could attack him.

Or who can come to him with his double bridle? - Margin, “within” Gesenius renders this, “The doubling of his jaws;” that is. his double row of teeth. Umbreit, “His double bit.” Noyes, “Who will approach his jaws?” So Rosenmuller. Schultens and Prof. Lee, however, suppose it means that no one can come near to him and “double the bit” upon him, “i. e.” cast the bit or noose over his nose, so as to secure him by doubling it, or passing it around him. The former seems to me to be the true meaning. “Into the doubling of his jaws, who can enter?” That is, Who will dare approach a double row of teeth so formidable?” The word rendered “bridle” (רסן resen) means properly a curb or halter, which goes over a horse’s nose, and hence, a bit or bridle. But it may be used to denote the interior of the mouth, the jaws, where the bit is placed, and then the phrase denotes the double row of teeth of the animal. Thus, the description of the “parts of defense” of the animal is kept up.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 41:13. Who can discover the face of his garment? — Who can rip up the hide of this terrible monster? Who can take away his covering, in order to pierce his vitals?


 
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