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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Job 41:14

Who can open the doores of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

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?
Complete Jewish Bible
"Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances ahead of him [as he goes].
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.
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 Who hath preuented me that I should repay him? whatsoeuer is vnder the whole heauen, is mine. 12 I will not conceale his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. 13 Who can discouer the face of his garment? or who can come to him, with his double bridle? 14 Who can open the doores of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. 15 His scales are his pride, shut vp together as with a close seale. 16 One is so neere to another, that no ayre can come betweene them. 17 They are ioyned one to another, they sticke together, that they cannot be sundred. 18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eye-liddes of the morning. 19 Out of his mouth goe burning lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out. 20 Out of his nostrels goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

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
And it came to passe at the end of two ful yeeres, that Pharaoh dreamed: and beholde, hee stood by the riuer.
Genesis 41:4
And the ill fauoured and leane fleshed kine, did eate vp the seuen well fauoured and fat kine: So Pharaoh awoke.
Genesis 41:7
And the seuen thinne eares deuoured the seuen ranke and full eares: and Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dreame.
Genesis 41:8
And it came to passe in the morning, that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the Magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh tolde them his dreame; but there was none that could interprete them vnto Pharaoh.
Genesis 41:19
And behold, seuen other kine came vp after them, poore and very ill fauoured, and leane fleshed, such as I neuer saw in all the land of Egypt for badnes.
Genesis 41:22
And I saw in my dreame, and behold, seuen eares came vp in one stalke, full and good.
Genesis 41:32
And for that the dreame was doubled vnto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God: and God will shortly bring it to passe.
Genesis 41:33
Now therfore let Pharaoh looke out a man discreet and wise, and set him ouer the land of Egypt.
Exodus 10:16
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste: and he said, I haue sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
2 Samuel 19:24
And Mephibosheth the sonne of Saul came downe to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feete, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the King departed, vntill the day hee came againe in peace.

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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