Job 41:13

Job 41:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
• New International Version (NIV)Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?

Context of Job 41:13

11Who has first given to Me that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine. [Who can have a claim against Me who made the unmastered beast?] 12“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his orderly frame. Who can penetrate or strip off his outer armor? Who can come to his jaws with a double bridle? 14Who can open the doors (jaws) of his face? Around his [open jaws and] teeth there is terror. 15His strong scales are his pride, Bound together as with a tight seal.

Job 41:13 word by word

מִֽי־גִ֭לָּה פְּנֵ֣י לְבוּשׁ֑וֹ בְּכֶ֥פֶל רִ֝סְנ֗וֹ מִ֣י יָבֽוֹא׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Who can discoverגָּלָהgâlâh · to reveal: uncoverH1540
• the faceפָּנֶהpânîym · face: surfaceH6440
• of his garmentלְבוּשׁlebûsh lebûsh · clothingH3830
• who can comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• with his doubleכֶּ֫פֶלkephel · doubleH3718
• bridleרֶ֫סֶןresen · bridleH7448

Cross-references for Job 41:13

• 2 Kings 19:28Because of your raging against Me, And because your arrogance and complacency have come up to My ears, I will put My hook in your nose, And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back [to Assyria] by the way that you came.
• Psalms 32:9Do not be like the horse or like the mule which have no understanding, Whose trappings include bridle and rein to hold them in check, Otherwise they will not come near to you.
• James 3:3Now if we put bits into the horses’ mouths to make them obey us, we guide their whole body as well.

Commentaries on Job 41:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Who can discover the face of his garment? - Who can rip up the hide of this terrible monster? Who can take away his covering, in order to pierce his vitals?Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Who can discern the face of his garment? - literally, “Who can reveal the face, that is, the appearance, of his garment?” This “garment” is undoubtedly his skin. The meaning seems to be, “His hard and rough skin is his defense, and no one can so strip off that as to have access to him.” The word rendered “discover” (גלה gâlâh ) means “to make naked”; then “to reveal”; and the idea is, that he cannot be made naked of that covering, or deprived of it so…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. discover--rather, "uncover the surface" of his garment (skin, Job 10:11): strip off the hard outer coat with which the inner skin is covered. with--rather, "within his double jaws"; literally, "bridle"; hence that into which the bridle is put, the double row of teeth; but "bridle" is used to imply that none dare put his hand in to insert a bridle where in other animals it is placed (Job 41:4; 39:10).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 41:13

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In the dictionaries

• Comely
• Iron
• Lay
• Leap
• Leviathan
• Bit and Bridle
• Double
• Night-Monster

Commentaries on Job 41

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary