Job 41:2

Job chapter 41 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

King James Version · 1611

Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

American Standard Version · 1901

Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

v.1Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

v.2This passage

v.3Will he make many supplications unto thee? Or will he speak soft words unto thee?

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

2 Kings 19:28
Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Ezekiel 29:4
And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales; and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, with all the fish of thy rivers which stick unto thy scales.
Isaiah 37:29
Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Isaiah 27:1
In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.