Job 41:7
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Job 41:7 in other translations
| BSB | Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? |
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| WEB | Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears? |
| ASV | Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears? |
| YLT | Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with fish-spears his head? |
| DARBY | Wilt thou fill his skin with darts, and his head with fish-spears? |
| BBE | Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head? |
| Webster | Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? |
What does Job 41:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. His hide is not penetrable, as that of fishes.
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? - This refers to some kind of harpoon work, similar to that employed in taking whales, and which they might use for some other kinds of animals; for the skin of the crocodile could not be pierced. Herrera says that he saw a crocodile defend itself against thirty men; and that they fired six balls at it without being able to wound it. It can only be wounded under his belly.
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Job 41:7 in the original Hebrew
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Canst.The Leviathan, [livyâthân ,]
fish.
26-29
fish.
26-29
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain
Context
- Job 41:6
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
- Job 41:7
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
- Job 41:8
Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
Job 41:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Cortarás tú con cuchillo su cuero, ó con asta de pescadores su cabeza? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il est magnifique par la force de ses boucliers étroitement unis comme par un sceau; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Eines fügt sich ans andere, und keine Luft dringt dazwischen; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Una uni conjungitur, et ne spiraculum quidem incedit per eas. |