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Job Chapter 40 verse 24 Holy Bible

ASV Job 40:24

Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?
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BBE Job 40:24

Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?
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DARBY Job 40:24

Shall he be taken in front? will they pierce through [his] nose in the trap?
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KJV Job 40:24

He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
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WBT Job 40:24

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
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WEB Job 40:24

Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?
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YLT Job 40:24

Before his eyes doth `one' take him, With snares doth `one' pierce the nose?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - He taketh it with his eyes; rather, Shall one take him when he is looking on? "Can he be captured." i.e. "when his eyes are open, and when he sees what is intended? No. If captured at all, it must be by subtlety, when he is not on the watch." His nose pierceth through snares; rather, Or can one bore his nostril with cords? i.e. can we lead him away captive, with a ring or hook passed through his nose, and a cord attached (compare the next chapter, ver. 2)?

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) His nose pierceth through snares.--Some render, "Shall any take him with snares? while he is looking, shall any pierce through his nose?" The sense seems to be rather, Let one take him by his eyes: i.e., by allurements placed before him, as elephants are taken. By means of snares one may pierce his nose. The Authorised Version seems to be less probably right.