Job 40:24

He taketh it with his eyes - Margin, “Or, will any take him in his sight, or, bore his nose with a gin!” From this marginal reading it is evident that our translators were much perplexed with this…

He taketh it with his eyes - He looks at the sweeping tide, and defies it.

His nose pierceth through snares - If fences of strong stakes be made in order to restrain him, or prevent him from passing…

God, for the further proving of his own power and disproving of Job's pretensions, concludes his discourse with the description of two vast and mighty animals, far exceeding man in bulk and strength,…

The meaning probably is,

Shall they take him before his eyes?

Or pierce through his nose with a snare?

"Before his eyes" or "in his sight" (Pro 1:17), that is, openly, when the animal is aware. The…