Job 41:19
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New International Version (©1984)
Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Lightning leaps from its mouth; flames of fire flash out.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Out of his mouth go burning torches; Sparks of fire leap forth.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Flames shoot from its mouth. Sparks of fire fly from it.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

American King James Version
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

American Standard Version
Out of his mouth go burning torches, And sparks of fire leap forth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.

Darby Bible Translation
Out of his mouth go forth flames; sparks of fire leap out:

English Revised Version
Out of his mouth go burning torches, and sparks of fire leap forth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire dart forth.

World English Bible
Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

Young's Literal Translation
Out of his mouth do flames go, sparks of fire escape.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Out of his mouth go burning lamps - The word "lamps" here is probably used to denote torches, or fire-brands. The animal is here described as in pursuit of his prey on land; and the description is exceedingly graphic and powerful. His mouth is then open; his jaws are distended; his breath is thrown out with great violence; his blood is inflamed, and the animal seems to vomit forth flames. The description is of course to be regarded as figurative. It is such as one would be likely to give who should see a fierce animal pressing on in pursuit of its prey.

And sparks of fire leap out - There is an appearance like sparks of fire. The animal, with an open throat highly inflamed, seems to breathe forth flames. The figure is a common one applied to a war-horse. Thus, Ovid:

"From their full racks the generous steeds retire,

Dropping ambrosial foam and snorting fire."

Dr. Good

The same thing is remarked by Achilles Tatius, of the hippopotamus, "With open nostrils, and breathing smoke like fire (πυρώδη καπνόν purōdē kapnon) as from a fountain of fire." And in Eustathius it is said, "They have an open nostril, breathing forth smoke like fire from a furnace " - πυρώδη καπνόν, ὠς ἐκ καμίνου πνέοντα purōdē kapnon, hōs ek kaminou pneonta. See Bochart.


Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Out of his mouth go burning lamps - Dr. Young, in his paraphrase, has a sensible note on this passage: - "This is nearer the truth than at first view may be imagined. The crocodile, according to naturalists, lying long under water, and being there forced to hold its breath, when it emerges, the breath long repressed is hot, and bursts out so violently, that it resembles fire and smoke. The horse does not repress his breath by any means so long, neither is he so fierce and animated; yet the most correct of poets ventures to use the same metaphor concerning him, volvit sub naribus ignem. By this I would caution against a false opinion of the boldness of Eastern metaphors, from passages ill understood."


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. Which, though hyperbolical expressions, have some foundation for them in the latter; in the vast quantities of water thrown out by the whale, through its mouth or hole in its frontispiece, which in the sun may look like lamps and sparks of fire, as before observed; and especially in the "orcae", or whales with teeth, which eject in the same way an oily mucus, or the fat liquor of the brain, commonly called spermaceti, which may appear more bright and glittering. Ovid (t) says much the same of the boar as is here said of the leviathan.

(t) "Fulmen ab ore venit; frondesque adflatibus ardent". Metamorph. c. 8. Fab. 4.


Geneva Study Bible

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.


Wesley's Notes

41:19 Lamps - This also better agrees with the crocodile, which breathes like the river - horse, of which ancient authors affirm, that his nostrils are very large, and he breathes forth a fiery smoke like that of a furnace.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

19. burning lamps-"torches"; namely, in respiring (Job 41:18), seem to go out.


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

41:1-34 Concerning Leviathan. - The description of the Leviathan, is yet further to convince Job of his own weakness, and of God's almighty power. Whether this Leviathan be a whale or a crocodile, is disputed. The Lord, having showed Job how unable he was to deal with the Leviathan, sets forth his own power in that mighty creature. If such language describes the terrible force of Leviathan, what words can express the power of God's wrath? Under a humbling sense of our own vileness, let us revere the Divine Majesty; take and fill our allotted place, cease from our own wisdom, and give all glory to our gracious God and Saviour. Remembering from whom every good gift cometh, and for what end it was given, let us walk humbly with the Lord.


Job 41:18 His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
Job 41:20 Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

Burning Dart Escape Fire Firebrands Flames Flaming Forth Jumping Leap Mouth Out Shoot Sparks Stream Torches


Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

Ps 18:8

Job Chapter 41 Verse 19

Alphabetical: burning fire Firebrands forth from go his leap mouth of out shoot sparks stream torches

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