Job 41:8

6 Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

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?

10 No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

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

Compare

BSB
If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
KJV
Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
WEB
Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
ASV
Lay thy hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no more.
DARBY
Lay thy hand upon him; remember the battle, do no more!
BLB
Put your hands on him; may you remember the battle, [and] not add.
ÅB
Prøv å legge hånd på den! Den strid skal du komme til å minnes og ikke gjøre det igjen!
OTB
Legg din hånd på ham.
Husk kampen; du vil ikke forsøke det igjen!
B1930
Prøv å legge hånd på den! Den strid skal du komme til å minnes og ikke gjøre det igjen!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Kings 20:11

    And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”

    Read in context
  • Luke 14:31–32

    Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

    Read in context
  • 2 Kings 10:4

    But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”

    Read in context