Job 41:14

12 I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

15 His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

16 One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
KJV
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
WEB
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
ASV
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
DARBY
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
BLB
The doors of his face, who can open [them]? All around his teeth [are] terror.
ÅB
Hvem har åpnet dens kjevers dør? Rundt om dens tenner er redsel.
OTB
Hvem kan åpne hans munn?
Hans tenner vekker ærefrykt.
B1930
Hvem har åpnet dens kjevers dør? Rundt om dens tenner er redsel.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ecclesiastes 12:4

    when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,

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  • Psalms 58:6

    O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.

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  • Daniel 7:7

    After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.

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  • Psalms 57:4

    My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

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  • Job 38:10

    when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

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  • Proverbs 30:14

    there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

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