Job 41:2
New International Version
Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?

New Living Translation
Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike?

English Standard Version
Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Berean Standard Bible
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

King James Bible
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

New King James Version
Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook?

New American Standard Bible
“Can you put a rope in his nose, And pierce his jaw with a hook?

NASB 1995
“Can you put a rope in his nose Or pierce his jaw with a hook?

NASB 1977
“Can you put a rope in his nose? Or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Legacy Standard Bible
Can you put a rope in its nose Or pierce its jaw with a hook?

Amplified Bible
“Can you put a rope [made] of rushes into his nose Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Christian Standard Bible
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

American Standard Version
Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do you cast a bridle in his mouth, and will you pierce his cheek with a thorn?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?

Contemporary English Version
Can it be led around by a ring in its nose or a hook in its jaw?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?

English Revised Version
Canst thou put a rope into his nose? or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Can you put a ring through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?

Good News Translation
Can you put a rope through his snout or put a hook through his jaws?

International Standard Version
Can you attach a bridle to his snout, or pierce his jaw with a hook?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Canst thou put a ring into his nose? Or bore his jaw through with a hook?

Literal Standard Version
Do you put a reed in his nose? And pierce his jaw with a thorn?

Majority Standard Bible
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

New American Bible
Can you put a ring into his nose, or pierce through his cheek with a gaff?

NET Bible
Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

New Revised Standard Version
Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

New Heart English Bible
Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Webster's Bible Translation
Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

World English Bible
Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Young's Literal Translation
Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw?

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
God's Power Shown in Leviathan
1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope? 2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? 3Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?…

Cross References
2 Kings 19:28
Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.'

Job 41:3
Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Isaiah 37:29
Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.'


Treasury of Scripture

Can you put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Isaiah 27:1
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 37:29
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Ezekiel 29:4,5
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales…

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Job 41
1. Of God's great power in the leviathan














(2) Hook.--Or, cord of rush.

A thorn.--Or, spike or hook.

Verse 2. - Canst thou put an hook into his nose? rather, a reed, or a rope of reeds. The exact meaning is doubtful. Or bore his jaw through with a thorn? A hook or ring is meant, rather than a "thorn" - such a "hook" or "ring" as was commonly used for keeping fish captive in the water, or for bringing prisoners of rank into the presence of the monarchs who had captured them (see 2 Kings 19:28; 2 Chronicles 33:11; Amos 4:2; 'Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 1. pp. 304,367).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Can you put
הֲתָשִׂ֣ים (hă·ṯā·śîm)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

a cord
אַגְמ֣וֹן (’aḡ·mō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 100: A bulrush, a rope of bulrushes

through his nose
בְּאַפּ֑וֹ (bə·’ap·pōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

or pierce
תִּקּ֥וֹב (tiq·qō·wḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5344: To puncture

his jaw
לֶֽחֱיוֹ׃ (le·ḥĕ·yōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3895: The cheek, the jaw-bone

with a hook?
וּ֝בְח֗וֹחַ (ū·ḇə·ḥō·w·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2336: Briar, bramble, hook, ring, fetter


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