It ranks first among the works of God, ¹  the One who made it has furnished it with a sword. ² 

biblegateway Job 40:19

"He is the first of the ways of God; Let his maker bring near his sword.

He is the foremost of God's works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

Behemoth is the first of God’s conquests. Its maker approaches it with his sword.

biblegateway Job 40:19

He ranks first among the works of God, yet his Maker can approach him with his sword.

"He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!

bibleoremus Job 40:19

"It is the first of the great acts of God—only its Maker can approach it with the sword.

He is the chief of God's works, made to be a tyrant over his fellow-creatures;

biblegateway Job 40:19

He is the first of the ways of God; Only He who made him can bring near His sword.

He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him].

biblegateway Job 40:19

It ranks first among the works of God, ¹  the One who made it has furnished it with a sword. ² 

¹ tn Heb “the ways of God.”

¹ sn This may be a reference to Gen 1:24, where the first of the animal creation was the cattle – bÿhemah (בְּהֵמָה).

² tc The literal reading of the MT is “let the one who made him draw near [with] his sword.” The sword is apparently a reference to the teeth or tusks of the animal, which cut vegetation like a sword. But the idea of a weapon is easier to see, and so the people who favor the mythological background see here a reference to God’s slaying the Beast. There are again many suggestions on how to read the line. The RV probably has the safest: “He that made him has furnished him with his sword” (the sword being a reference to the sharp tusks with which he can attack).