7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

Other Translations of Job 41:7

New International Version

7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

English Standard Version

7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

The Message

7 Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion, or drive harpoons into his huge head?

New King James Version

7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears?

New Living Translation

7 Will its hide be hurt by spears or its head by a harpoon?

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 41:7

Chapter Contents

Concerning Leviathan.

The description of the Leviathan, is yet further to convince Job of his own weakness, and of God's almighty power. Whether this Leviathan be a whale or a crocodile, is disputed. The Lord, having showed Job how unable he was to deal with the Leviathan, sets forth his own power in that mighty creature. If such language describes the terrible force of Leviathan, what words can express the power of God's wrath? Under a humbling sense of our own vileness, let us revere the Divine Majesty; take and fill our allotted place, cease from our own wisdom, and give all glory to our gracious God and Saviour. Remembering from whom every good gift cometh, and for what end it was given, let us walk humbly with the Lord.