Job 41 · Verse 2

Job 41:2

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

Job 41:2, King James Version

Job 41:2 in other translations

BSB	Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
WEB	Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
ASV	Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
YLT	Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw?
DARBY	Wilt thou put a rush-rope into his nose, and pierce his jaw with a spike?
BBE	Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?
Webster	Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

What does Job 41:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. hook--rather, "a rope of rushes." thorn--rather, a "ring" or "hook." So wild beasts were led about when caught (Is 37:29; Eze 29:4); fishes also were secured thus and thrown into the water to keep them alive.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 2 Canst thou put a hook onto his nose? - Canst thou put a ring in his nose, and lead him about as thou dost thine ox? In the East they frequently lead thy oxen and buffaloes with a ring in their noses. So they do bulls and oxen in this country. Bore his jaw through with a thorn? - Some have thought that this means, Canst thou deal with him as with one of those little fish which thou stringest on a rush by means of the thorn at its end? Or perhaps it may refer to those ornaments with which they sometimes adorned their horses, mules, camels, etc.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Job 41:2 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.

הֲתָשִׂ֣יםha.ta.Sim¿ will you putH7760

אַגְמ֣וֹן'ag.Mona cordH100

בְּאַפּ֑וֹbe.'a.Poin nose itsH639

וּ֝בְח֗וֹחַu.ve.Cho.achand with a hookH2336

תִּקּ֥וֹבti.Kovwill you pierce?H5344

לֶֽחֱיוֹ\׃le.che.yojaw itsH3895

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

Cross references for Job 41:2

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. And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
2 Kings 19:28
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will 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.
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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isa 27:1; 37:29; Eze 29:4,5

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

Context

Job 41:1
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Job 41:2
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Job 41:3
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

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Job 41:2 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	¿Pondrás tú garfio en sus narices, y horadarás con espinas su quijada?
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Nul n’est assez hardi pour le réveiller; et qui est celui qui se présentera devant moi?
German Elberfelder 1871	Wer hat mir zuvor gegeben? und ich werde ihm vergelten. Was unter dem ganzen Himmel ist, ist mein.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Quis ante dedit mihi, ut reddam ei? omnia quæ sub cælo sunt, mea sunt.