What Does Job 41:13 Mean in the King James?
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The question reaches beyond whether Leviathan can be mastered: can anyone even uncover the surface that hides him?
THE MEANING
The verse places you before a power whose covering remains beyond reach and whose approach cannot be brought under a bridle. It marks a limit to human access and restraint: this creature is present, yet not exposed or mastered by you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the assumption that enough knowledge or force can make every hidden power accessible and controllable.
THE ROOT
גִּלָּה
gillah
GROWS FROM
גלה
To uncover, disclose, or lay bare.
Here “discover” holds both finding out and uncovering: the verb גלה (galah, uncover or reveal) makes knowing physical, as though the covering itself were to be laid bare. The question presses on whether human access can reach even the creature’s exterior.
ALSO GROWS
megalleh: A form of the same verb: to uncover or reveal.
מְגַלֶּה
In Job 12:22 this verb describes deep things being brought out of darkness, showing that uncovering depends on the power to disclose.
galuy: Exposed or brought into view.
גָּלוּי
It names the condition the verb would produce; the question stresses that Leviathan’s surface does not become open to human view.
THE PATTERN
Created powers can be encountered without being fully understood or brought under human control.
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.THE THREAD
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.Both verses use גלה (galah, uncover or reveal): here Job asks who can uncover Leviathan, while Job 12:22 says deep things are brought from darkness into view. The shared root sharpens the question of who has the power to disclose what is hidden.
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