Job 41:21
 Job 41:21 
New International Version (©2011)
Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.

English Standard Version (©2001)
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth.

International Standard Version (©2012)
His breath can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth.

NET Bible (©2006)
Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Its breath sets coals on fire, and a flame pours from its mouth.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

American King James Version
His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

American Standard Version
His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from his mouth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.

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

English Revised Version
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth forth from his mouth.

Webster's Bible Translation
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame issueth from his mouth.

World English Bible
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

Young's Literal Translation
His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

41:1-34 Concerning Leviathan. - The description of the Leviathan, is yet further to convince Job of his own weakness, and of God's almighty power. Whether this Leviathan be a whale or a crocodile, is disputed. The Lord, having showed Job how unable he was to deal with the Leviathan, sets forth his own power in that mighty creature. If such language describes the terrible force of Leviathan, what words can express the power of God's wrath? Under a humbling sense of our own vileness, let us revere the Divine Majesty; take and fill our allotted place, cease from our own wisdom, and give all glory to our gracious God and Saviour. Remembering from whom every good gift cometh, and for what end it was given, let us walk humbly with the Lord.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 21. - His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. All the representations of dragons breathing smoke and flames, found in the myths and sagas of so many countries, probably rest upon the observed fact of team or spray streaming forth from the mouth and widely opened nostrils of the crocodile. The steam has seemed to be smoke, and smoke has naturally suggested flame and fire.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

21. kindleth coals—poetical imagery (Ps 18:8).


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God's Power Shown in Creatures
20Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. 21His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. 22In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. …

Job 41:20 Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
Job 41:22 Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
Isaiah 40:7 The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass.