Job 41:14

Job 41:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
• New International Version (NIV)Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Who can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all around?

Context of Job 41:14

12I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. 13Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws? Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror. 15Hisstrong scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal. 16One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.

Job 41:14 word by word

דַּלְתֵ֣י פָ֭נָיו מִ֣י פִתֵּ֑חַ סְבִיב֖וֹת שִׁנָּ֣יו אֵימָֽה׃Read the interlinear

• faceפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440

Cross-references for Job 41:14

• Job 38:10And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
• Ecclesiastes 12:4and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
• Psalms 57:4My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
• Psalms 58:6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
• Proverbs 30:14There is a generation whose teeth areasswords, and their jaw teethasknives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
• Daniel 7:7After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth beast, terrible and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

Commentaries on Job 41:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14The doors of his face? - His jaws which are most tremendous.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Who 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…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. doors of ... face--his mouth. His teeth are sixty in number, larger in proportion than his body, some standing out, some serrated, fitting into each other like a comb [Bochart].Read the comment

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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