Job 41:21

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
His breath sets coals ablaze,and flames pour out of his mouth.

Hebrew Names Version
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

King James Version
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

English Standard Version
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

New Century Version
Its breath sets coals on fire, and flames come out of its mouth.

New English Translation
Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

Amplified Bible
"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

New American Standard Bible
"His breath sets coals aglow, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

World English Bible
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.

Legacy Standard Bible
Its breath kindles coals,And a flame goes forth from its mouth.

Berean Standard Bible
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth.

Contemporary English Version
while its blazing breath scorches everything in sight.

Complete Jewish Bible
Clubs count as hay, and he laughs at a quivering javelin.

Darby Translation
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

Easy-to-Read Version
His breath sets coals on fire, and flames shoot from his mouth.

George Lamsa Translation
Out of his nostrils goes smoke, like a flame spreading round the sides of a pot.

Good News Translation
His breath starts fires burning; flames leap out of his mouth.

Lexham English Bible
Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth.

Literal Translation
His breath kindles coals and the flame goes out from his mouth.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His breth maketh the coales burne, the flame goeth out of his mouth.

American Standard Version
His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from his mouth.

Bible in Basic English
His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.

King James Version (1611)
His breath kindleth coales, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
His breath maketh the coles burne, and the flambe goeth out of his mouth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense quantity of clay.

English Revised Version
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth forth from his mouth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
His breeth makith colis to brenne, and flawme goith out of his mouth.

Update Bible Version
His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

Webster's Bible Translation
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame issueth from his mouth.

New King James Version
His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes out of his mouth.

New Living Translation
Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.

New Life Bible
His breath sets fire to coals. A fire goes out of his mouth.

New Revised Standard
Its breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of its mouth.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
His breath, setteth coals ablaze, and, a flame, out of his mouth, proceedeth;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(41-12) His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.

Revised Standard Version
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

Young's Literal Translation
His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

Contextual Overview

¹²"But I've more to say about Leviathan, the sea beast, his enormous bulk, his beautiful shape. Who would even dream of piercing that tough skin or putting those jaws into bit and bridle? And who would dare knock at the door of his mouth filled with row upon row of fierce teeth? His pride is invincible; nothing can make a dent in that pride. Nothing can get through that proud skin— impervious to weapons and weather, The thickest and toughest of hides, impenetrable! ¹⁸"He snorts and the world lights up with fire, he blinks and the dawn breaks. Comets pour out of his mouth, fireworks arc and branch. Smoke erupts from his nostrils like steam from a boiling pot. He blows and fires blaze; flames of fire stream from his mouth. All muscle he is—sheer and seamless muscle. To meet him is to dance with death. Sinewy and lithe, there's not a soft spot in his entire body— As tough inside as out, rock-hard, invulnerable. Even angels run for cover when he surfaces, cowering before his tail-thrashing turbulence. Javelins bounce harmlessly off his hide, harpoons ricochet wildly. Iron bars are so much straw to him, bronze weapons beneath notice. Arrows don't even make him blink; bullets make no more impression than raindrops. A battle ax is nothing but a splinter of kindling; he treats a brandished harpoon as a joke. His belly is armor-plated, inexorable— unstoppable as a barge. He roils deep ocean the way you'd boil water, he whips the sea like you'd whip an egg into batter. With a luminous trail stretching out behind him, you might think Ocean had grown a gray beard! There's nothing on this earth quite like him, not an ounce of fear in that creature! He surveys all the high and mighty— king of the ocean, king of the deep!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 18:8, Psalms 18:12, Isaiah 30:33, Habakkuk 3:5

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:9 - went Job 39:20 - the glory

Cross-References

Genesis 41:9
The head cupbearer then spoke up and said to Pharaoh, "I just now remembered something—I'm sorry, I should have told you this long ago. Once when Pharaoh got angry with his servants, he locked me and the head baker in the house of the captain of the guard. We both had dreams on the same night, each dream with its own meaning. It so happened that there was a young Hebrew slave there with us; he belonged to the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us, each dream separately. Things turned out just as he interpreted. I was returned to my position and the head baker was impaled."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His breath kindles coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. Hyperbolical expressions, which the above observations may seem to justify.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His breath kindleth coals - It seems to be a flame, and to set on fire all around it. So Hesiod, “Theog.” i. 319, describing the creation of the Chimera, speaks of it as

πνέουσαν ἀμαισάκετον πῦρ

pneousan amaimaketon pur.

“Breathing unquenchable fire,” So Virgil, “Georg.” ii. 140:

Haec loca non tauri spirantes naribus ignem Invertere.

“Bulls breathing fire these furrows ne’er have known.”

Warton

A similar phrase is found in a sublime description of the anger of the Almighty, in Psalms 18:8 :

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,

And fire out of his mouth devoured:

Coals were kindled by it.