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 be silent as to his parts, the story of his power, and the beauty of his structure. 13Who can uncover the surface of his garment? who can come within his double jaws? Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror. 15The rows of his shields are a 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 38:10When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
• Ecclesiastes 12:4and the doors are shut toward the street; when the sound of the grinding is subdued, and they rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;
• Psalms 57:4My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down [among] them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Psalms 58:6O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
• Proverbs 30:14— a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted 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, dreadful and terrible, and exceeding strong; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the rest with its feet; and it was different 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