Job 41:2

WEB

²Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

KJV

²Canst thou put^[+] an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

BSB

²Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

FBV

²Can you thread a rope through its nose? Can you pass a hook through its jaw?

Extra References

Isaiah 37:29

²⁹Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

Ezekiel 29:4-5

⁴I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales. ⁵I’ll cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You’ll fall on the open field. You won’t be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

2 Kings 19:28

²⁸Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

Isaiah 27:1

¹In that day, the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.