Job 40:19 {14}
Good News Translation
The most amazing of all my creatures! Only his Creator can defeat him.

New Revised Standard Version
“It is the first of the great acts of God— only its Maker can approach it with the sword.

Contemporary English Version
I made it more powerful than any other creature, yet I am stronger still.

New American Bible
He is the first of God’s ways, only his maker can approach him with a sword.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will apply his sword.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will apply his sword.

the chief

Job 26:13 His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent.

Psalm 104:24 How great are thy works, O Lord ? thou hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches.

he that

Psalm 7:12 Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

Context
Job Humbles Himself Before the LORD
18His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron. 19He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will apply his sword.20To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.…
Cross References
Job 40:15
Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an ox.

Job 40:18
His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron.

Job 41:33
There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one.

Job 40:18
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