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New Living Translation

Job 41:14

Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!

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.
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 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 has given me anything that I need to pay back? Everything under heaven is mine. 12 "I want to emphasize Leviathan's limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form. 13 Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor? 14 Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible! 15 The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together. 16 They are so close together that no air can get between them. 17 Each scale sticks tight to the next. They interlock and cannot be penetrated. 18 "When it sneezes, it flashes light! Its eyes are like the red of dawn. 19 Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out. 20 Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.

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
Two full years later, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing on the bank of the Nile River.
Genesis 41:4
Then the scrawny, thin cows ate the seven healthy, fat cows! At this point in the dream, Pharaoh woke up.
Genesis 41:7
And these thin heads swallowed up the seven plump, well-formed heads! Then Pharaoh woke up again and realized it was a dream.
Genesis 41:8
The next morning Pharaoh was very disturbed by the dreams. So he called for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. When Pharaoh told them his dreams, not one of them could tell him what they meant.
Genesis 41:19
But then I saw seven sick-looking cows, scrawny and thin, come up after them. I've never seen such sorry-looking animals in all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:22
"In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, full and beautiful, growing on a single stalk.
Genesis 41:32
As for having two similar dreams, it means that these events have been decreed by God, and he will soon make them happen.
Genesis 41:33
"Therefore, Pharaoh should find an intelligent and wise man and put him in charge of the entire land of Egypt.
Exodus 10:16
Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron. "I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you," he confessed.
2 Samuel 19:24
Now Mephibosheth, Saul's grandson, came down from Jerusalem to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet, trimmed his beard, or washed his clothes since the day the king left Jerusalem.

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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