Christian Standard Bible
Job 41:14
14Who can open his jaws, surrounded by those terrifying teeth?
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 cannot be silent about his limbs, his power, and his graceful proportions. 13Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double layer of armor? Who can open his jaws, surrounded by those terrifying teeth? 15His pride is in his rows of scales, closely sealed together. 16One scale is so close to another that no air can pass between them.
Read all of Job 41Job 41:14 word by word
דַּלְתֵ֣י פָ֭נָיו מִ֣י פִתֵּ֑חַ סְבִיב֖וֹת שִׁנָּ֣יו אֵימָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 41:14
- Job 38:10when I determined its boundaries and put its bars and doors in place,
- Ecclesiastes 12:4the doors at the street are shut while the sound of the mill fades; when one rises at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song grow faint.
- Psalms 57:4I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among devouring lions — people whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- Psalms 58:6God, knock the teeth out of their mouths; Lord, tear out the young lions’ fangs.
- Proverbs 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, devouring the oppressed from the land and the needy from among mankind.
- Daniel 7:7“After this, while I was watching in the night visions, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, frightening and dreadful, and incredibly strong, with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed, and it trampled with its feet whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts 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
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