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Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Complete Jewish Bible

Job 41:14

"Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances ahead of him [as he goes].

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Leviathan;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Doors;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Who can open his jaws,surrounded by those terrifying teeth?
Hebrew Names Version
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
King James Version
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
English Standard Version
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
New Century Version
No one can force open its great jaws; they are filled with frightening teeth.
New English Translation
Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.
Amplified Bible
"Who can open the doors (jaws) of his face? Around his [open jaws and] teeth there is terror.
New American Standard Bible
"Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth there is terror.
World English Bible
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull ronnd about.
Legacy Standard Bible
Who can open the doors of its face?Around its teeth there is dreadful terror.
Berean Standard Bible
Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
Contemporary English Version
Who would try to open its jaws, full of fearsome teeth?
Darby Translation
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Easy-to-Read Version
No one can force him to open his jaws. The teeth in his mouth scare people.
George Lamsa Translation
Who has removed his skin? Who can come near him when the net is lowered?
Good News Translation
Who can make him open his jaws, ringed with those terrifying teeth?
Lexham English Bible
Who can open the doors of its face? Its teeth all around are fearsome.
Literal Translation
Who can pry open the doors of his face? Terror is all around his teeth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who openeth the dore of his face? for he hath horrible tethe rounde aboute.
American Standard Version
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Bible in Basic English
Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In his neck abideth strength, and dismay danceth before him.
King James Version (1611)
Who can open the doores of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who shall open the doores of his face? for he hath horrible teeth round about.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The flesh also of his body is joined together: if one pours violence upon him, he shall not be moved.
English Revised Version
Who can open the doors of his face? round about his teeth is terror.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who schal opene the yatis of his cheer? ferdfulnesse is bi the cumpas of hise teeth.
Update Bible Version
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Webster's Bible Translation
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible around.
New King James Version
Who can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all around?
New Living Translation
Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!
New Life Bible
Who can open the doors of his mouth? Around his teeth is much fear.
New Revised Standard
Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The doors of his face, who hath opened? The circles of his teeth, are a terror!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(41-5) Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
Revised Standard Version
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Young's Literal Translation
The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth [are] terrible.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth there is terror.

Contextual Overview

11 From his mouth go fiery torches, and sparks come flying out. 12 His nostrils belch steam like a caldron boiling on the fire. 13 His breath sets coals ablaze; flames pour from his mouth. 14 "Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances ahead of him [as he goes]. 15 The layers of his flesh stick together; they are firm on him, immovable. 16 His heart is as hard as a stone, yes, hard as a lower millstone. 17 When he rears himself up, the gods are afraid, beside themselves in despair. 18 "If a sword touches him, it won't stick; neither will a spear, or a dart, or a lance. 19 He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. 20 An arrow can't make him flee; for him, slingstones are so much chaff.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the: Job 38:10, Ecclesiastes 12:4

his teeth: Psalms 57:4, Psalms 58:6, Proverbs 30:14, Daniel 7:7

Cross-References

Genesis 41:1
At the end of two years, Pharaoh had a dream: he was standing beside the Nile River;
Genesis 41:4
Then the miserable-looking and lean cows ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. At this point Pharaoh woke up.
Genesis 41:7
And the thin ears swallowed up the seven full, ripe ears. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it had been a dream.
Genesis 41:8
In the morning he found himself so upset that he summoned all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one there could interpret them for him.
Genesis 41:19
After them, there came up out of the river seven more cows, poor, miserable-looking and lean — I've never seen such bad-looking cows in all the land of Egypt!
Genesis 41:22
But I dreamed again and saw seven full, ripe ears of grain growing out of a single stalk.
Genesis 41:32
Why was the dream doubled for Pharaoh? Because the matter has been fixed by God, and God will shortly cause it to happen.
Genesis 41:33
"Therefore, Pharaoh should look for a man both discreet and wise to put in charge of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 10:16
Pharaoh hurried to summon Moshe and Aharon and said, "I have sinned against Adonai your God and against you.
2 Samuel 19:24
Then the king said to Shim‘i, "You will not be put to death," and the king swore it to him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who can open the doors of his face?.... Of his mouth, the jaws thereof, which are like a pair of folding doors: the jaws of a crocodile have a prodigious opening. Peter Martyr u speaks of one, whose jaws opened seven feet broad; and Leo Africanus w affirms he saw some, whose jaws, when opened, would hold a whole cow. To the wideness of the jaws of this creature Martial x alludes; and that the doors or jaws of the mouth of the whale are of a vast extent will be easily believed by those who suppose that was the fish which swallowed Jonah;

his teeth are terrible round about; this may seem to make against the whale, the common whale having none; though the "ceti dentati" are a sort of whales that have many teeth in the lower jaw, white, large, solid, and terrible y. Olaus Magnus z speaks of some that have jaws twelve or fourteen feet long; and teeth of six, eight, and twelve feet; and there is a sort called "trumpo", having teeth resembling those of a mill a. In the spermaceti whale are rows of fine ivory teeth in each jaw, about five or six inches long b. But of the crocodile there is no doubt; which has two rows of teeth, very sharp and terrible, and to the number of sixty c.

u Decad. 5. c. 9. w Descript. Africae, l. 9. p. 763. So Sandys's Travels, l. 2. p. 78. Edit. 5. x Epigram. l. 3. cp. 64. y Vid. Plin. l. 9. c. 5, 6. and Philosoph. Transact. vol. 3. p. 544. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 848. z De Ritu Gent. Septent. l. 21. c. 8. a Philosoph. Transact. abridged, vol. 2. p. 847, 848. b Philosoph. Transact. abridged, vol. 7. part 3. p. 425. c Aelian. l. 10. c. 21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who can open the doors of his face? - His mouth. The same term is sti 1 used to denote the mouth - from its resemblance to a door. The idea is, that no one would dare to force open his mouth. This agrees better with the crocodile than almost any other animal. It would not apply to the whale. The crocodile is armed with a more formidable set of teeth than almost any other animal; see the description in the notes at Job 41:1. Bochart says that it has sixty teeth, and those much larger than in proportion to the size of the body. Some of them, he says, stand out; some of them are serrated, or like a saw, fitting into each other when the mouth is closed; and some come together in the manner of a comb, so that the grasp of the animal is very tenacious and fearful; see a full description in Bochart.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 41:14. The doors of his face? — His jaws which are most tremendous.


 
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