Job 41:10
8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
9 Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
11 Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
12 I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
- KJV
- None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
- WEB
- None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
- ASV
- None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me?
- DARBY
- None is so bold as to stir him up; and who is he that will stand before me?
- BLB
- None [is] so fierce that he would rouse him; and who is he who will stand before my face?
- ÅB
- Ingen er så djerv at han tør tirre den; hvem tør da sette seg opp imot meg?
- OTB
- Ingen er så fryktløs at han våger å vekke ham;
Hvem er da den som kan stå foran Meg? - B1930
- Ingen er så djerv at han tør tirre den; hvem tør da sette sig op imot mig?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 9:4
God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
Read in contextJeremiah 12:5
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
Read in contextNumbers 24:9
He crouches, he lies down like a lion; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
Read in contextJob 3:8
May it be cursed by those who curse the day — those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:22
Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
Read in contextJob 40:9
Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
Read in contextGenesis 49:9
Judah is a young lion— my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
Read in contextPsalms 2:11–12
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
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