English Standard Version
Job 41:13
13Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?
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?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Who can strip off its hide, and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?
Context of Job 41:13
11Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. 12"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame. Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle? 14Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. 15His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.
Read all of Job 41Job 41:13 word by word
מִֽי־גִ֭לָּה פְּנֵ֣י לְבוּשׁ֑וֹ בְּכֶ֥פֶל רִ֝סְנ֗וֹ מִ֣י יָבֽוֹא׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 41:13
- 2 Kings 19:28Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
- Psalms 32:9Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.
- James 3:3If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies 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
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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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