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Job 41:14
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Who can open his jaws,surrounded by those terrifying teeth?
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
No one can force open its great jaws; they are filled with frightening teeth.
Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.
"Who can open the doors (jaws) of his face? Around his [open jaws and] teeth there is terror.
"Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth there is terror.
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull ronnd about.
Who can open the doors of its face?Around its teeth there is dreadful terror.
Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
Who would try to open its jaws, full of fearsome teeth?
"Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances ahead of him [as he goes].
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
No one can force him to open his jaws. The teeth in his mouth scare people.
Who has removed his skin? Who can come near him when the net is lowered?
Who can make him open his jaws, ringed with those terrifying teeth?
Who can open the doors of its face? Its teeth all around are fearsome.
Who can pry open the doors of his face? Terror is all around his teeth.
Who openeth the dore of his face? for he hath horrible tethe rounde aboute.
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.
In his neck abideth strength, and dismay danceth before him.
Who can open the doores of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
Who shall open the doores of his face? for he hath horrible teeth round about.
The flesh also of his body is joined together: if one pours violence upon him, he shall not be moved.
Who can open the doors of his face? round about his teeth is terror.
Who schal opene the yatis of his cheer? ferdfulnesse is bi the cumpas of hise teeth.
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible around.
Who can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all around?
Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!
Who can open the doors of his mouth? Around his teeth is much fear.
The doors of his face, who hath opened? The circles of his teeth, are a terror!
(41-5) Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth [are] terrible.
"Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth there is terror.
Contextual Overview
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
After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,
The ugly and thin cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. And Pharaoh awoke.
The thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.
In the morning his spirit was troubled; so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
Then seven other cows came up after them, poor, very ugly, and thin. Never had I seen such ugly ones in all the land of Egypt.
I fell asleep a second time and I saw in my dream seven ears of grain, full and good, growing on one stalk,
And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.
Now therefore let Pharaoh select a man who is discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Pharaoh hurriedly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
Mephibosheth grandson of Saul came down to meet the king; he had not taken care of his feet, or trimmed his beard, or washed his clothes, from the day the king left until the day he came back in safety.
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.
