Job 41 · Verse 14

Job 41:14

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
Job 41:14, King James Version

Job 41:14 in other translations

BSBWho can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
WEBWho can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
ASVWho can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
YLTThe doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth are terrible.
DARBYWho can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
BBEWho has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.
WebsterWho can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible around.

What does Job 41:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. 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].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 The doors of his face? - His jaws which are most tremendous.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Job 41:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

דַּלְתֵ֣יdal.Tei[the] doors ofH1817
פָ֭נָיוFa.navface itsH6440
מִ֣יmiwho?H4310
פִתֵּ֑חַfi.Te.achhas he openedH6605
סְבִיב֖וֹתse.vi.Vot[is] aroundH5439
שִׁנָּ֣יוshi.Navteeth itsH8127
אֵימָֽה\׃'ei.MahterrorH367

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 41:14

  • Ecclesiastes 12:4

    And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

  • Psalms 58:6

    Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.

  • Daniel 7:7

    After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

  • Psalms 57:4

    My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

  • Job 38:10

    And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

  • Proverbs 30:14

    There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the.
38:10; Ec 12:4
his teeth.
Ps 57:4; 58:6; Pr 30:14; Da 7:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 41:13

    Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

  • Job 41:14

    Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

  • Job 41:15

    His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

Read all of Job 41

Job 41:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿Quién abrirá las puertas de su rostro? Los órdenes de sus dientes espantan.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Dans son cou loge la force, et la frayeur danse devant lui.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Die Wampen seines Fleisches schließen an, sind ihm fest angegossen, unbeweglich.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Membra carnium ejus cohærentia sibi: mittet contra eum fulmina, et ad locum alium non ferentur.