Job 41 Cross References - ISV

¹ On Leviathan “Can you draw Leviathan out of the water with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope? ² Can you attach a bridle to his snout, or pierce his jaw with a hook? ³ Will he make many supplications to you, or will he beg you for mercy? ⁴ Will he try to make a deal with you, so that you may take him in servitude forever? ⁵ “Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls? ⁶ Will your business be able to buy him, Will you divide him among your merchant friends? ⁷ Will you fill his flesh with harpoons, or his head with lances? ⁸ Lay your hand on him, and you’ll remember the struggle. You’ll never do that again! ⁹ “Look! Anyone’s hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him. ¹⁰ No one is fierce enough to dare to arouse him. “Who, then, can stand in my presence and face me? ¹¹ Who can take me to court and be reconciled to me? All of heaven is mine. ¹² “I won’t be silent concerning his limbs, his mighty strength, and orderly frame. ¹³ Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can approach him with a bridle? ¹⁴ Who dares to open his mouth, since it is ringed with his terrible teeth! ¹⁵ His protective scales are his pride, they lie sealed tightly together. ¹⁶ Each one is so close to the other that not even air comes in between them. ¹⁷ Each is attached to the other, grasping each other so they cannot be separated. ¹⁸ “His snorting releases flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of the dawn. ¹⁹ Flames blaze from his mouth; streams of sparking fire fly out. ²⁰ Smoke billows from his nostrils; like a boiling pot or burning reeds. ²¹ His breath can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth. ²² “His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified. ²³ There is no flaw in his body’s armor; it is firmly fixed on him and unbreachable. ²⁴ His heart is as strong as stone, it is as hard as a lower millstone. ²⁵ When he rears up, the mighty are terrified; they are bewildered as he thrashes about. ²⁶ “Thrusting at him with a sword won’t be effective, nor will spears, darts, or javelins. ²⁷ He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree. ²⁸ Arrows won’t make him flee; stones from a sling are only pebbles to him. ²⁹ Clubs are like twigs; he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin. ³⁰ “Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain. ³¹ He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment. ³² The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair. ³³ “There’s nothing like him on earth; he was created without the ability to fear. ³⁴ He looks down on everything that is high; he rules over every kind of pride.”

⁸ Let whoever curses days curse it— those who are ready to awaken monsters.

¹⁴ You crushed the heads of Leviathan. You set it as food for desert creatures.

²⁶ There, the ships pass through; Leviathan, which you created, frolics in it.

¹ Israel’s DeliveranceAt that time, with his fierce, mighty, and powerful sword, the LORD will punish the gliding serpent Leviathan—the coiling serpent Leviathan—and he will kill the dragon that’s in the sea.

²⁸ Because of your rage against me, your complacency has reached my ears. I’ll put my hook into your nostrils and my bit into your mouth. Then I’ll turn you back on the road by which you came.’

²⁹ Your insolence has reached my ears, so I’ll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I’ll make you turn back on the road by which you came.

⁴ ‘So I’m going to plant a hook in your jaw and make the fish in your waterways grab hold of your scales. I’ll bring you up out of the middle of your waterways, along with all of the fish from your waterways that cling to your scales, ⁵ Then I’ll fling you out into the desert, you and all those fish in your waterways. You’ll fall out in the open fields; you’ll never be reunited. I’m giving you to the wild beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky, and they will dine on you!

²¹ His mouth is as smooth as butter, while war is in his heart. His words were as smooth as olive oil, while his sword is drawn.

¹ How to Live Wisely A gentle response diverts anger, but a harsh statement incites fury.

²³ The poor person pleads for mercy, but the wealthy man responds harshly.

¹⁵ Through patience a ruler may be persuaded; a gentle word can break a bone.

¹⁰ They say to the seers, ‘Don’t see visions,’ and to the prophets, ‘Don’t give us visions of what is right! Instead, tell us welcome things, prophesy illusions,

²⁸ God blessed the humans by saying to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it! Be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, and every living thing that crawls on the earth!”

⁶ then his master is to bring him before the judges and he is to bring him to the door or to the doorpost. His master is to pierce his ear with an awl, and he is to serve him permanently.

¹⁷ then take an awl and pierce through his earlobe into the door. Then he will be your slave forever. You are to do the same for your female slaves.

³¹ “Look, now,” his advisors suggested, “we’ve heard that the Israeli kings are merciful. So let’s clothe ourselves with sackcloth, tie our hair back with ropes, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he’ll spare your life.” ³² So they put on some sackcloth, tied their hair back with ropes, and approached the king of Israel. “Your servant Ben-hadad says this,” they said. “Please let me live.”
“Is he still alive?” Ahab asked. “He’s my brother.”
³³ Ben-hadad’s advisors, quickly analyzing the signs in what Ahab was saying, responded, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.”
“Go get him,” Ahab responded. So Ben-hadad came out to him, and Ahab took him up into his personal chariot.
³⁴ Ben-hadad made this promise to Ahab: “I will restore the cities that my ancestors took from your ancestors. You’ll be able to build streets named after yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.”
“With this promise I will release you,” Ahab replied. So Ahab made a treaty with Ben-hadad and let him go.

⁵ You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor. ⁶ You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet:

²⁵ Because they all got good and drunk, they ordered, “Go get Samson, so he can entertain us.” So they called for Samson from the prison, and he entertained them while they made him stand between the pillars.
²⁶ Samson Kills Himself and 3,000 PhilistinesThen Samson told the young man who had been leading him around by the hand, “Let me touch and feel the pillars on which this building rests, and I’ll support myself against them.” ²⁷ Now the building was full of men, women, and all the Philistine officials, with about 3,000 men and women on the roof watching Samson while he was entertaining them.
²⁸ Then Samson cried out to the LORD, “Lord GOD, please remember me. And please strengthen me this one time, God, so that I can repay the Philistines right now for my two eyes.” ²⁹ Then Samson grabbed the two middle pillars upon which the house rested and braced himself against them with one pillar in his right hand and the other in his left.
³⁰ Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He strained with all his strength until the building collapsed on the officials and every person in it. As a result, the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed during his lifetime.

¹¹ He dams up flowing rivers, bringing hidden things to light.”

¹¹ When they saw him, they brought 30 companions to accompany him.

¹¹ But the king of Israel replied, “Tell him, ‘The one who is starting to strap on his battle armor should never brag like the one who is taking it off.’”

⁴ But they were too terrified, and so they told one another, “Look! Two previous kings couldn’t stand up to Jehu, so how can we?”

³¹ “Or suppose a king is going to war against another king. He will first sit down and consider whether with 10,000 men he can fight the one coming against him with 20,000 men, won’t he? ³² If he can’t, he will send a delegation to ask for terms of peace while the other king is still far away.

³⁴ until you are driven insane from what your eyes will see.

¹¹ “Look,” the LORD told Samuel. “I’m about to do something in Israel that will make both ears of anyone who hears it tingle.

¹⁹ As often as it sweeps through, it will carry you away, for it will sweep by morning after morning in the day; but understanding this message will bring sheer terror at night,

¹¹ There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places, and there will be fearful events and awful signs from heaven.”

⁹ Judah is a lion cub. My son, you have gone up from the prey. Crouching like a lion, he lies down, Like a lioness, who would dare rouse him?

⁹ He crouches, laying low like a lion. Who would awaken him? Those who bless you are blessed, and those who curse you are cursed.”

⁴ He is wise in heart and strong in will— who can be stubborn against him and succeed?

⁹ Do you have strength like God? Can you create thunder with a sound like he can?”

¹¹ Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. ¹² Kiss the son before he becomes angry, and you die where you stand. Indeed, his wrath can flare up quickly. How blessed are those who take refuge in him.

⁵ God’s Reply to JeremiahIndeed, if you run with others on foot, and they tire you out, how can you compete with horses? You are secure in a land at peace, but how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?

¹⁷ “Do you see this, Son of Man?” he asked me. “Is it an insignificant thing for Judah’s house to commit the detestable things that they’re doing here? They’ve filled the land with violence and turned away from me, causing me to become angry again. Look how they’re sniffing with their noses! ¹⁸ I’m going to deal with them in rage and anger. I’ll show neither pity nor compassion. They’ll cry loudly directly in my ears, but I won’t listen to them.”

²² or you’ll provoke the Lord to jealousy, won’t you? Are we stronger than he is?

⁵ And now if you carefully obey me and keep my covenant, you are to be my special possession out of all the peoples, because the whole earth belongs to me,

¹⁴ You see, heaven—even the highest heavens—belongs to the LORD, along with the earth and all that is in it,

¹¹ To you, LORD, belongs the greatness, and the valor, and the splendor, and the endurance, and the majesty because all that is in heaven and on earth is yours. To you belongs the kingdom, LORD, and you are exalted as head over all. ¹² Both wealth and honor proceed from you, and you are ruling over them all. You control power— you control who is made great, and how everyone becomes strong. ¹³ And so, our God, we are giving you thanks, and we are praising your wonderful name! ¹⁴ But who am I, and who are my people, that we make such voluntary offerings as these? For all things come from you, and from your own hand we are giving to you.

² “Can a human being be useful to God, since he, who is wise, is sufficient to himself? ³ Will it please the Almighty if you are innocent, or does he profit if your life is blameless?

⁷ If you are righteous, what will you add to him? What can God receive from your efforts?

³ You go before him with wonderful blessings, and put a crown of fine gold on his head.

¹ A Davidic Psalm.
A Song for the King of Glory The earth and everything in it exists for the LORD— the world and those who live in it.

¹² “If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine along with everything in it.

¹⁶ The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but he gave the earth to human beings.

³⁵ Or who has given him something only to have him pay it back?”

²⁶ for “the earth and everything in it belong to the Lord.”

²⁸ However, if someone says to you, “This was offered as a sacrifice,” don’t eat it, both out of consideration for the one who told you and also for the sake of conscience.

²⁵ God made each kind of the earth’s animals, along with every kind of livestock and crawling thing. And God saw how good it was.

⁹ Don’t be like a horse or mule, without understanding. They are held in check by a bit and bridle in their mouths; otherwise they will not remain near you.

³ Now if we put bits into horses’ mouths to make them obey us, we can guide their whole bodies as well.

¹⁰ when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it;

⁴ I am surrounded by lions. I lie down with those who burn with fire— that is, with people whose teeth are like spears and arrows— whose tongues are like sharp swords.

⁶ God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; LORD, break the fangs of the young lions!

¹⁴ Some people have swords for teeth and knives for fangs to devour the afflicted from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

⁴ The doors to the street will be shut when the sound of grinding decreases, when one wakes up at the song of a bird, and all of the singing women are silenced.

⁷ “After this, I continued to observe the night visions. And look!—there was a fourth awe-inspiring, terrifying, and viciously strong animal! It had large, iron teeth. It devoured and crushed things, and trampled under its feet whatever remained. Different from all of the other previous animals, it had ten horns.

²³ True Wisdom and the Coming JudgmentThis is what the LORD says: “The wise man is not to boast in his wisdom; the strong man is not to boast in his strength; and the rich man is not to boast in his riches.

² I also saw a powerful angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” ³ No one in heaven, on earth, or under the earth could open the scroll or look inside it.

⁵ “Stop crying,” one of the elders told me. “Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered. He can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

⁹ Let the stars of its evening twilight be dark; let it hope for light but let there be none; let it not see the breaking rays of the dawn.

¹⁴ His head and his hair were white like wool, in fact, as white as snow. His eyes were like flames of fire,

⁸ In his anger smoke poured out of his nostrils, and consuming fire from his mouth; coals were lit from it.

¹³ This message from the LORD came to me a second time: “What do you see?”
I replied, “I see a boiling pot, and its mouth is tilted away from the north.”
¹⁴ Then the LORD told me, “From the north disaster will pour out on all who live in the land,

¹² The brightness before him scattered the thick clouds, with hail stones and flashes of fire.

³³ For the Fire Pit has long been prepared; truly it is for the king; it will indeed be made ready. And its pyre will be deep and wide, with abundant fire and wood. Like a stream of burning sulfur, the breath of the LORD will set it ablaze.

⁵ Before him pestilence walks, and disease follows behind him.

¹⁹ On the HorseDo you instill the horse with strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

¹⁶ Now take a look at the strength that he has in his loins, and in the muscles of his abdomen.

¹⁴ “From the power of Sheol I will rescue them, from death I will redeem them. Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? My eyes will remain closed to your pleas for compassion.

⁵⁵ “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
⁵⁶ Now death’s stinger is sin, and sin’s power is the Law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus the Messiah!

⁴ Because I knew that you are obstinate, and because your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead is bronze,

³ The Prophet SpeaksLORD, don’t your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they didn’t flinch. You brought them to an end, but they refused to receive discipline. They made their faces harder than stone, and they refused to repent.

¹² They made their hearts hard like a diamond, to keep from obeying the Law and the messages that the LORD of the Heavenly Armies sent by his Spirit through the former prophets.

²⁸ Yet when they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, the LORD brought them out of their distress.

⁴ Then the LORD sent a great wind over the sea, and a severe storm broke out. It seemed as if the ship were about to break up. ⁵ At this point the mariners became terrified, and each man cried out to his gods. They began to throw the cargo into the sea in order to lighten the vessel. But Jonah had gone down into the vessel’s hold, had lain down, and was fast asleep. ⁶ So the captain approached him, and told him, “What are you doing asleep? Get up! Call on your gods! Maybe your god will think about us so we won’t die!”

²¹ He paws the ground in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he goes out to face weapons. ²² He scoffs at fear and is never scared; he never retreats from a sword. ²³ A quiver of arrows rattles against his side, along with a flashing spear and a lance. ²⁴ Leaping in his excitement, he takes in the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpets sound!

⁷ He despises city noises; he ignores the shouts of the driver.

¹⁰ They make fun of kings, deriding those who rule. They laugh at all of the fortified places, constructing ramps to seize them.

¹⁴ In addition, Uzziah equipped the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, body armor, bows, and stones for use in slings.

¹⁵ A Promise of Victory“See, I’m making you into a new, sharp, and multi-tooth threshing sledge. You’ll thresh and crush the mountains, and make the hills like chaff.

² When the earth was as yet unformed and desolate, with the surface of the ocean depths shrouded in darkness, and while the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters,

¹⁵ to serve as lights in the sky, and to shine on the earth!” And that is what happened:

¹⁵ Now as for you, you’ll die peacefully, join your ancestors, and be buried at a good old age.

⁸ then passed away, dying at a ripe old age, having lived a full life, and joined his ancestors.

³⁸ But Jacob replied, “My son isn’t going back with you, since his brother is dead and he’s the only one left. If something should harm him as you travel, then it’ll be death for me and my sad, gray hair!”

¹⁴ The deepest ocean says, ‘It’s not within me.’ and the sea says, ‘You’ll never find it with me.’

¹⁶ “Have you been to the source of the sea and walked about in the recesses of the deepest ocean?

³⁰ when water solidifies like stone and the surface of the deepest sea freezes?

³¹ Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is obtained by following a righteous path.

²⁹ The glory of young men is their strength; and the splendor of elders is their gray hair.

¹⁹ He is the grandest of God’s undertakings, yet his creator is approaching him with his sword.

² Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD that I should listen to him and let Israel go? I don’t know about the LORD, nor will I let Israel go!”

¹² By his power he disturbs the sea; and with his skill he shatters the sea monster.

⁸ The proud beasts haven’t walked there; lions have never passed over it.

⁶ Therefore pride is their necklace and violence covers them like a garment.

¹⁰ Therefore God’s people return there and drink it all in like water until they’re satiated.

¹ The Captivity of Ephraim How terrible it will be for that arrogant garland— the drunks of Ephraim! How terrible it will be for that fading flower of his glorious beauty, which sits on the heads of people bloated with food, of people overcome with wine!

³ Tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Watch out! I’m coming to get you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt! You big monster! You lay in wait in the middle of your waterways and say, “My waterways belong to me! I made them for myself!”

¹ The Vision of a Woman Dressed with the SunA spectacular sign appeared in the sky: a woman dressed with the sun, who had the moon under her feet and a victor’s crown of twelve stars on her head. ² She was pregnant and was crying out from her labor pains, the agony of giving birth.
³ The Vision of the Red DragonThen another sign appeared in the sky: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on its heads.

² The beast that I saw was like a leopard. Its feet were like bear’s feet, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. The dragon gave it his power, his throne, and complete authority.

² He captured the dragon, that ancient serpent, also known as the devil and Satan, and tied him up for a thousand years. ³ He threw him into the bottomless pit, locked it, and sealed it over him to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were over. After that, he must be set free for a little while.