New International Version
Job 41:14
14Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome 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.
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!
Context of Job 41:14
12“I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs, its strength and its graceful form. 13Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor? Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth? 15Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together; 16each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
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 fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,
- Ecclesiastes 12:4when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;
- Psalms 57:4I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts— men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- Psalms 58:6Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions!
- Proverbs 30:14those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.
- Daniel 7:7“After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, 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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