Job 41:7

Job 41:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
• New International Version (NIV)Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears?

Context of Job 41:7

5Leviathan is not something to enjoy at home, like a bird. You cannot tie it with a rope, so that your girls can play with it. 6Traders do not buy it at the market. They do not cut it up to sell it. Job, can you throw spears into Leviathan's body to kill it? Can you shoot arrows into its head? 8If you try to take hold of it, you will never forget the fight! You will never try to do that again! 9If anyone hopes to catch it, he is deceiving himself. As soon as he sees it, he no longer feels so brave!

Job 41:7 word by word

הַֽתְמַלֵּ֣א בְשֻׂכּ֣וֹת עוֹר֑וֹ וּבְצִלְצַ֖ל דָּגִ֣ים רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Canst thou fillמָלֵאmâlê' mâlâ' · to fillH4390
• his skinעוֹר‛ôr · skinH5785
• with barbed ironsשֻׂכָּהώûkkâh · spearH7905
• or his headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
• with fishדָּגdâg dâ'g · fishH1709
• spearsצִלִצָלtselâtsal · spearH6767

Cross-references for Job 41:7

• Job 41:26If you hit it with a sword, you will not hurt it. Spears, arrows and knives will be useless.

Commentaries on Job 41:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? - This refers to some kind of harpoon work, similar to that employed in taking whales, and which they might use for some other kinds of animals; for the skin of the crocodile could not be pierced. Herrera says that he saw a crocodile defend itself against thirty men; and that they fired six balls at it without being able to wound it. It can only be wounded under his belly.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? - Referring to its thickness and impenetrability. A common method of taking fish is by the spear; but it is here said that the leviathan could not be caught in this manner. The common method of taking the crocodile now is by shooting him; see the notes at Job 41:1. Nothing is more remarkable in the crocodile than the thick and impenetrable skin with which it is covered; and the description here will agree better…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. His hide is not penetrable, as that of fishes.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 41:7

• Fish
• Fish Spear
• God
• Iron

In the dictionaries

• Comely
• Iron
• Lay
• Leap
• Leviathan
• Fish
• Fishing
• Head
• Locust
• 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