Job 40:24

In 11 translations

BSB

Can anyone capture him as he looks on, or pierce his nose with a snare?

KJV

He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.He…: or, Will any take him in his sight, or, bore his nose with a gin?

WEB

Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?

ASV

Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?

LSV

Does [one] take him by his eyes? || Does [one] pierce the nose with snares?”

YLT

Before his eyes doth [one] take him, With snares doth [one] pierce the nose?

DBY

Shall he be taken in front? will they pierce through [his] nose in the trap?

DRC40:19

In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.

GNV40:19

Hee taketh it with his eyes, and thrusteth his nose through whatsoeuer meeteth him.

JPS

Shall any take him by his eyes, or pierce through his nose with a snare?

LXXE

Yet one shall take him in his sight; one shall catch him with a cord, and pierce his nose.

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WLC

בְּעֵינָ֥יו יִקָּחֶ֑נּוּ בְּ֝מֽוֹקְשִׁ֗ים יִנְקָב־אָֽף׃

LXX-Br

Ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ αὐτοῦ δέξεται αὐτόν, ἐνσκολιευόμενος τρήσει ῥῖνα.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 41:1–2“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

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