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OET (OET-RV) Can anyone capture it while its eyes watch?
⇔ ≈Is there anyone who can make a snare to pierce its nose?
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
בְּעֵינָ֥יו יִקָּחֶ֑נּוּ בְּ֝מֽוֹקְשִׁ֗ים יִנְקָב־אָֽף
in/on/at/with,eyes_of,he capture,him in/on/at/with,snare pierce nose
Yahweh is using the question form for emphasis. If a speaker of your language would not use the question form for that purpose, you could translate these questions as statements or as exclamations. Alternate translation: [No one can capture it with its eyes! No one can pierce its nose with a cord!]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
בְּעֵינָ֥יו יִקָּחֶ֑נּוּ
in/on/at/with,eyes_of,he capture,him
Yahweh is using the term eyes by association to mean sight. This could mean: (1) that no one can capture Behemoth while it still has the use of its eyes. Alternate translation: [No one can capture it while it is watching!] or [No one can capture it without first blinding it!] (2) that no one can capture Behemoth by using something that it would see. Alternate translation: [No one can capture it by putting attractive bait in front of it!]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
בְּ֝מֽוֹקְשִׁ֗ים יִנְקָב־אָֽף
in/on/at/with,snare pierce nose
In this culture, people would control the movements of a large animal by passing a thin but strong cord or rope through a puncture in its nose. Yahweh is saying that no one could do this with Behemoth. Alternate translation: [No one would be able to control its movements by passing a cord through a hole in its nose!]
40:15-24 Following a list of natural animals (39:1-30), God described Behemoth (40:15-24) and Leviathan (41:1-34) as creatures that man cannot tame. Job couldn’t tame the wild donkey or ox (39:5-12), let alone Behemoth and Leviathan (40:15-24), but God created them and could control them, and Job had to acknowledge it (41:2).
• Here Behemoth seems to be a natural creature: (1) It is an animal that God made, just as he made Job (40:15); (2) it is not a dreadful predator but eats grass like an ox (40:15); and (3) it is in a poem describing God’s creation of the natural order, rather than in a mythological story of the world’s formation. Most commentators identify Behemoth with the hippopotamus, a huge, grass-eating animal (40:15-19) that lies in the river among the lotus plants and reeds (40:21). Like the wild ox, Behemoth is powerful (40:16-18, 24; 39:11), yet is essentially peaceful (40:20-23).
OET (OET-RV) Can anyone capture it while its eyes watch?
⇔ ≈Is there anyone who can make a snare to pierce its nose?
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.