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King James Version

Job 41:21

His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Leviathan;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Coal;   Leviathan;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Coal;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bellows;   Breath;   Soul;   Spark;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviathan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Breathing;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Leviathan;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Breath;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Flame;   Forth;   Leviathan;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Its breath kindles coals,And a flame goes forth from its mouth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
His breath maketh the coles burne, and the flambe goeth out of his mouth.
Darby Translation
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
New King James Version
His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes out of his mouth.
Literal Translation
His breath kindles coals and the flame goes out from his mouth.
Easy-to-Read Version
His breath sets coals on fire, and flames shoot from his mouth.
World English Bible
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
King James Version (1611)
His breath kindleth coales, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His breth maketh the coales burne, the flame goeth out of his mouth.
American Standard Version
His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from his mouth.
Bible in Basic English
His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
Update Bible Version
His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
Webster's Bible Translation
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame issueth from his mouth.
New English Translation
Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.
Contemporary English Version
while its blazing breath scorches everything in sight.
Complete Jewish Bible
Clubs count as hay, and he laughs at a quivering javelin.
Geneva Bible (1587)
His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.
George Lamsa Translation
Out of his nostrils goes smoke, like a flame spreading round the sides of a pot.
Amplified Bible
"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
Hebrew Names Version
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.
New Living Translation
Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.
New Life Bible
His breath sets fire to coals. A fire goes out of his mouth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense quantity of clay.
English Revised Version
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth forth from his mouth.
Berean Standard Bible
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth.
New Revised Standard
Its breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of its mouth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
His breath, setteth coals ablaze, and, a flame, out of his mouth, proceedeth;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(41-12) His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
Lexham English Bible
Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth.
English Standard Version
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
New American Standard Bible
"His breath sets coals aglow, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
New Century Version
Its breath sets coals on fire, and flames come out of its mouth.
Good News Translation
His breath starts fires burning; flames leap out of his mouth.
Christian Standard Bible®
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
His breeth makith colis to brenne, and flawme goith out of his mouth.
Young's Literal Translation
His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth.
Revised Standard Version
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

Contextual Overview

11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. 12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. 13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? 14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. 15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. 16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. 17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered. 18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. 19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. 20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 18:8, Psalms 18:12, Isaiah 30:33, Habakkuk 3:5

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:9 - went Job 39:20 - the glory

Cross-References

Genesis 41:9
Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Genesis 41:10
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
Psalms 37:19
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Isaiah 9:20
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
Ezekiel 3:3
And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His breath kindles coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. Hyperbolical expressions, which the above observations may seem to justify.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His breath kindleth coals - It seems to be a flame, and to set on fire all around it. So Hesiod, “Theog.” i. 319, describing the creation of the Chimera, speaks of it as

πνέουσαν ἀμαισάκετον πῦρ

pneousan amaimaketon pur.

“Breathing unquenchable fire,” So Virgil, “Georg.” ii. 140:

Haec loca non tauri spirantes naribus ignem Invertere.

“Bulls breathing fire these furrows ne’er have known.”

Warton

A similar phrase is found in a sublime description of the anger of the Almighty, in Psalms 18:8 :

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,

And fire out of his mouth devoured:

Coals were kindled by it.


 
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