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Job 41:14
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Who can open the doors of its face?Around its teeth there is dreadful terror.
"Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth there is terror.
Who shall open the doores of his face? for he hath horrible teeth round about.
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Who can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all around?
Who can pry open the doors of his face? Terror is all around his teeth.
No one can force him to open his jaws. The teeth in his mouth scare people.
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
Who can open the doores of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
Who openeth the dore of his face? for he hath horrible tethe rounde aboute.
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible around.
Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.
Who would try to open its jaws, full of fearsome teeth?
"Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances ahead of him [as he goes].
Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull ronnd about.
Who has removed his skin? Who can come near him when the net is lowered?
"Who can open the doors (jaws) of his face? Around his [open jaws and] teeth there is terror.
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
In his neck abideth strength, and dismay danceth before him.
Who could pry open its jaws? For its teeth are terrible!
Who can open the doors of his mouth? Around his teeth is much fear.
The flesh also of his body is joined together: if one pours violence upon him, he shall not be moved.
Who can open the doors of his face? round about his teeth is terror.
Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth.
The doors of his face, who hath opened? The circles of his teeth, are a terror!
(41-5) Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
Who can open the doors of its face? Its teeth all around are fearsome.
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
"Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth there is terror.
No one can force open its great jaws; they are filled with frightening teeth.
Who can make him open his jaws, ringed with those terrifying teeth?
Who can open his jaws, surrounded by those terrifying teeth?
Who schal opene the yatis of his cheer? ferdfulnesse is bi the cumpas of hise teeth.
The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth [are] terrible.
Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the: Job 38:10, Ecclesiastes 12:4
his teeth: Psalms 57:4, Psalms 58:6, Proverbs 30:14, Daniel 7:7
Cross-References
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Who can open the doors of his face?.... Of his mouth, the jaws thereof, which are like a pair of folding doors: the jaws of a crocodile have a prodigious opening. Peter Martyr u speaks of one, whose jaws opened seven feet broad; and Leo Africanus w affirms he saw some, whose jaws, when opened, would hold a whole cow. To the wideness of the jaws of this creature Martial x alludes; and that the doors or jaws of the mouth of the whale are of a vast extent will be easily believed by those who suppose that was the fish which swallowed Jonah;
his teeth are terrible round about; this may seem to make against the whale, the common whale having none; though the "ceti dentati" are a sort of whales that have many teeth in the lower jaw, white, large, solid, and terrible y. Olaus Magnus z speaks of some that have jaws twelve or fourteen feet long; and teeth of six, eight, and twelve feet; and there is a sort called "trumpo", having teeth resembling those of a mill a. In the spermaceti whale are rows of fine ivory teeth in each jaw, about five or six inches long b. But of the crocodile there is no doubt; which has two rows of teeth, very sharp and terrible, and to the number of sixty c.
u Decad. 5. c. 9. w Descript. Africae, l. 9. p. 763. So Sandys's Travels, l. 2. p. 78. Edit. 5. x Epigram. l. 3. cp. 64. y Vid. Plin. l. 9. c. 5, 6. and Philosoph. Transact. vol. 3. p. 544. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 848. z De Ritu Gent. Septent. l. 21. c. 8. a Philosoph. Transact. abridged, vol. 2. p. 847, 848. b Philosoph. Transact. abridged, vol. 7. part 3. p. 425. c Aelian. l. 10. c. 21.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Who can open the doors of his face? - His mouth. The same term is sti 1 used to denote the mouth - from its resemblance to a door. The idea is, that no one would dare to force open his mouth. This agrees better with the crocodile than almost any other animal. It would not apply to the whale. The crocodile is armed with a more formidable set of teeth than almost any other animal; see the description in the notes at Job 41:1. Bochart says that it has sixty teeth, and those much larger than in proportion to the size of the body. Some of them, he says, stand out; some of them are serrated, or like a saw, fitting into each other when the mouth is closed; and some come together in the manner of a comb, so that the grasp of the animal is very tenacious and fearful; see a full description in Bochart.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 41:14. The doors of his face? — His jaws which are most tremendous.
