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Job 41:10

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41:10Is it not fierce17 when it is awakened?

Who is he, then, who can stand before it?18

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Footnotes

  1. 17 The description is of the animal, not the hunter (or fisherman). Leviathan is so fierce that no one can take him on alone.
  2. 18 has “before me” and can best be rendered as “Who then is he that can stand before me?” (ESV, , , , ). The following verse (11) favors the since both express the lesson to be learned from Leviathan: If a man cannot stand up to Leviathan, how can he stand up to its creator? The translation above has chosen to read the text as “before him” (cf. , ).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.

Who then is he who can stand before me?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

No one is fierce enough to rouse it.

Who then is able to stand against me?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan;

who then can stand against me?

NLTNew Living Translation

And since no one dares to disturb it,

who then can stand up to me?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it?

Who then is he who would stand before it?

KJV 1900King James Version

None is so fierce that dare stir him up:

Who then is able to stand before me?