Job 40:24 {19}
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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?

Lexicon
Can anyone capture him
יִקָּחֶ֑נּוּ (yiq·qā·ḥen·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take

as he looks on,
בְּעֵינָ֥יו (bə·‘ê·nāw)
Preposition-b | Noun - cdc | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

or pierce
יִנְקָב־ (yin·qāḇ-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5344: To puncture

his nose
אָֽף׃ (’āp̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

with a snare?
בְּ֝מֽוֹקְשִׁ֗ים (bə·mō·wq·šîm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4170: A bait or lure, a snare


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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