Job 41:10
No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
BSB
ASV
None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me?
KJV
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
None is so fierce that dare stir him up,.... This seems best to agree with the crocodile, who frequently lies down and sleeps on the ground (q), and in the water by night (r); see Eze 29:3; when it is very dangerous to arouse him; and few, if any so daring, have courage enough to do it: though whales have been seen lying near shore asleep, and looked like rocks, even forty of them together (s); who then is able to stand before me?
If a man dare attack one of My creatures (Ge 49:9; Nu 24:9), who will dare (as Job has wished) oppose himself (Ps 2:2) to Me, the Creator? This is the main drift of the description of leviathan.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Jeremiah 12:5“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets…
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Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.
If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!
Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.
Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one…
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Numbers 24:9He crouches, he lies down like a lion; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
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I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you…
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1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
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They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will…