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Job 41:21

Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its 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

Christian Standard Bible®
His breath sets coals ablaze,and flames pour out of his mouth.
Hebrew Names Version
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
King James Version
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
English Standard Version
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
New Century Version
Its breath sets coals on fire, and flames come out of its mouth.
Amplified Bible
"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
New American Standard Bible
"His breath sets coals aglow, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
World English Bible
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Its breath kindles coals,And a flame goes forth from its mouth.
Berean Standard Bible
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his 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.
Darby Translation
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Easy-to-Read Version
His breath sets coals on fire, and flames shoot from his mouth.
George Lamsa Translation
Out of his nostrils goes smoke, like a flame spreading round the sides of a pot.
Good News Translation
His breath starts fires burning; flames leap out of his mouth.
Lexham English Bible
Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth.
Literal Translation
His breath kindles coals and the flame goes out from 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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.
King James Version (1611)
His breath kindleth coales, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
His breath maketh the coles burne, and the flambe goeth 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
His breeth makith colis to brenne, and flawme goith 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 King James Version
His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes out of his mouth.
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.
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.
Revised Standard Version
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
Young's Literal Translation
His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

Contextual Overview

11 (Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!) 12 I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. 13 Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? 14 Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome. 15 Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; 16 each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them. 17 They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated. 18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn. 19 Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth! 20 Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.

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 the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I recall my failures.
Genesis 41:10
Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards—me and the chief baker.
Psalms 37:19
They will not be ashamed when hard times come; when famine comes they will have enough to eat.
Isaiah 9:20
They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!
Ezekiel 3:3
He said to me, "Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you." So I ate it, and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.

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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