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The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan

Job 41:14

In 11 translations

BSB
Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
KJV
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
WEB
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
ASV
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
LSV
Who has opened the doors of his face? Around his teeth [are] terrible.
YLT
The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth [are] terrible.
DBY
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
DRC41:5
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
GNV41:5
Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull round about.
JPS41:6
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
LXXE41:6
Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC41:6
דַּלְתֵ֣י פָ֭נָיו מִ֣י פִתֵּ֑חַ סְבִיב֖וֹת שִׁנָּ֣יו אֵימָֽה׃KJV:Job.41.14
LXX-Br41:6
Πύλας προσώπου αὐτοῦ τίς ἀνοίξει; κύκλῳ ὀδόντων αὐτοῦ φόβος.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Ecclesiastes 12:4when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,
  • Psalms 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
  • Daniel 7:7After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot…
  • Psalms 58:6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
  • Job 38:10when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
  • Proverbs 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 41:6 in some Bibles
  • 41:14 in most Bibles

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