Job 40:24 {19}
Good News Translation
Who can blind his eyes and capture him? Or who can catch his snout in a trap?

Contemporary English Version
There is no way to capture a hippopotamus--not even by hooking its nose or blinding its eyes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.

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In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.

Job 41:1,2 Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord? . . .

Context
Job Humbles Himself Before the LORD
23Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth. 24In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.
Cross References
Job 40:23
Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.

Job 41:1
Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?

Additional Translations
Can anyone capture him as he looks on, or pierce his nose with a snare?He takes it with his eyes: his nose pierces through snares.

Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?

Yet one shall take him in his sight; one shall catch him with a cord, and pierce his nose.

Shall he be taken in front? will they pierce through [his] nose in the trap?

Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?

He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?

Before his eyes doth one take him, With snares doth one pierce the nose?
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