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Job 40

Job 40:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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ζHe taketh
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
it with his eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
: his nose
'aph (Hebrew #639)
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
KJV usage: anger(-gry), + before, countenance, face, + forebearing, forehead, + (long-)suffering, nose, nostril, snout, X worthy, wrath.
Pronounce: af
Origin: from 599
pierceth through
naqab (Hebrew #5344)
to puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel)
KJV usage: appoint, blaspheme, bore, curse, express, with holes, name, pierce, strike through.
Pronounce: naw-kab'
Origin: a primitive root
snares
mowqesh (Hebrew #4170)
from 3369; a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively): by implication, a hook (for the nose)
KJV usage: be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.
Pronounce: mo-kashe'
Origin: or moqesh {mo-kashe'}
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or, Will any take him in his sight, or, bore his nose with a gin?
Job 41:1‑2• 1Wilt thou draw out the leviathan with the hook, and press down his tongue with a cord?
 2Wilt thou put a rush-rope into his nose, and pierce his jaw with a spike? (Job 41:1‑2)
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Or, Will any take him in his sight, or bore his nose with agin?
Job 41:1‑2• 1Wilt thou draw out the leviathan with the hook, and press down his tongue with a cord?
 2Wilt thou put a rush-rope into his nose, and pierce his jaw with a spike? (Job 41:1‑2)
• Can he be caught in a trap, like some lesser animal, or be held with a cord and ring through his nostrils? In other words, he is an untamable, uncontrollable beast. He is of no use for man’s service. The entire description gives the impression of absolute power used for utterly selfish ends. It lives for itself, refusing to yield its strength to the service of others. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)
• And yet he is but a creature, endowed by God, for His all wise purposes, with superhuman strength. Let Job, let all who are tempted to trust in their own strength, whether of body, as here, or of heart and mind, consider this creature, self-sufficient and resistless. How puny will their own arm appear. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)
• In the pride of his own self-righteousness, “showing himself that he is God,” he would catch glimpses of this evil thing one day to be developed in all the fullness of hideous apostasy. What more awful revelation of the evil of pride could he, or we, have? Self-righteousness, self-seeking, pride of conduct or of character, denies its need of Christ and of God. Such is sin in the flesh—incorrigible and hideous. Who can subdue it or change its nature? And yet behemoth is controlled, though not by man. God is over all, and “He who now letteth, will let.” (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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