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Job 41:11

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41:11(Who has confronted19 me that I should repay?20

Everything under heaven belongs to me!)21

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Footnotes

  1. 19 The verb קָדַם (qadam) means “to come to meet; to come before; to confront” to the face.
  2. 20 The verse seems an intrusion (and so E. Dhorme, H. H. Rowley, and many others change the pronouns to make it refer to the animal). But what the text is saying is that it is more dangerous to confront God than to confront this animal.
  3. 21 This line also focuses on the sovereign God rather than Leviathan. H. H. Rowley, however, wants to change לִי־חוּא (li-hu’, “it [belongs] to me”) into לֹא הוּא (lo’ hu’, “there is no one”). So it would say that there is no one under the whole heaven who could challenge Leviathan and live, rather than saying it is more dangerous to challenge God to make him repay.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?

Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Who has a claim against me that I must pay?

Everything under heaven belongs to me.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Who confronted me, that I should repay him?

Everything under heaven belongs to me.

NLTNew Living Translation

Who has given me anything that I need to pay back?

Everything under heaven is mine.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Who has come to confront me, that I should repay him?

Under all the heavens, it belongs to me.

KJV 1900King James Version

Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him?

Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.