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Verse Job 41:16. _ONE IS SO NEAR TO ANOTHER_] It has already been
stated, that a musket-ball fired at him in _any direction_ cannot make
a passage through his scales....
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CHAPTER 41
_ 1. Leviathan, the untamable beast of power (Job 41:1)_
2. Its description (Job 41:12)
3. His remarkable strength (Job 41:25)...
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JOB 40:15 TO JOB 41:34. BEHEMOTH AND LEVIATHAN. Most scholars regard
this passage as a later addition to the poem. The point of Job 40:8 is
God's reply to Job's criticism of His righteousness; the des...
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JOB 41. LEVIATHAN. The author regards the crocodile as impossible of
capture. In Job 41:1 b perhaps the meaning is that when caught the
crocodile cannot be led about by a rope round his tongue and low...
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AIR. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
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These verses refer to the close coherence of the scales to one
another....
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His armour of scales....
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Description of the parts of Leviathan....
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Job 40:6 to Job 42:6. The Lord's Second Answer to Job out of the Storm
Shall Man charge God with unrighteousness in His Rule of the World?
All that the first speech of the Lord touched upon was the...
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TEXT 41:1-34
41 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Canst thou put a rope Into his nose?
Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
3 Will he make ma...
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THE SECOND SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY (CONCLUDED)
The second great creature, the Crocodile (with which the 'leviathan'
is generally identified) is now described. If Job cannot control the
crocodile, dare...
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This description explains why a man cannot attack a crocodile. The
crocodile would try to bite the man. And no part of the crocodile’s
body seems soft enough to cut, even with a sword.
AN ADVENTURE W...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 41
GOD FINISHES HIS SPEECH...
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_[Job 41:8]_ אֶחָ֣ד בְּ אֶחָ֣ד יִגַּ֑שׁוּ
וְ֝...
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XXVIII.
THE RECONCILIATION
Job 38:1 - Job 42:6
THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained
in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job
makes submis...
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THE PARABLE OF THE CROCODILE
Job 41:1
The last paragraph described the hippopotamus; the whole of this
chapter is devoted to the crocodile. In a series of striking questions
the voice of the Almighty...
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Leviathan is almost certainly the crocodile, and there is the
playfulness of a great tenderness in the suggestions Jehovah makes to
Job about these fierce creations. Can Job catch him with a rope or a...
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Angels. Elim. That is, the mighty, the most valiant, shall fear this
monstrous fish, and in their fear shall seek to be purified,
(Challoner) by contribution. (Sanchez) --- R. Levi has given a
ridicul...
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(11) В¶ Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever
is under the whole heaven is mine. (12) I will not conceal his parts,
nor his power, nor his comely proportion. (13) Who can discover...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42.
Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He
makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be
vile, an...
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ONE IS SO NEAR TO ANOTHER, THAT NO AIR CAN COME BETWEEN THEM. This
shows that it cannot be understood of the skin of the whale, and the
hardness and strength of that, which is alike and of a piece; wh...
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One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Ver. 16. _One is so near to another, that no air, &c._] One scale or
flake is. This is more proper, say some, to the crocodile than to th...
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_His scales are his pride_ He prides and pleases himself in his strong
and mighty scales. Hebrew, אפיקי מגנים, _aphikee maginnim,
robusta scutorum, the strength_, or _strong things, of his shields are...
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One is so near to another that no air can come between them....
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JOB'S WEAKNESS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE CROCODILE...
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LEVIATHAN
(vv.1-34)
Leviathan was a water creature, and appears to be the crocodile, the
most fearsome of all aquatic beasts, unless it was another similar
animal, now extinct. Job could use a hook...
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Which plainly shows that the shields or scales are several; which
agrees better to the crocodile than to the whale, whose skin is all
one entire piece, unless there were a sort of whales having thick...
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Job 41:16 One H259 near H5066 (H8799) another H259 air H7307 come H935
(H8799)...
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CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job concluded.
CHARACTERS: God, Job.
CONCLUSION: Man is utterly unable to contend against the Almighty. If
the inferior creatures keep man in awe, how wonderful must the...
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Job 41:1. _Canst thou draw out leviathan?_ This word is rendered by
the LXX, “dragon.” It occurs in Isaiah 27:1, and is rendered
_whale, dragon,_ and _serpent._ Men are now satisfied that it is not
th...
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_Canst thou draw out Leviathan?_
BEHEMOTH AND LEVIATHAN
The description of the “behemoth” in the preceding chapter and the
“leviathan” here suggests a few moral reflections.
I. The prodigality of c...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 41:1 The Lord describes the power of LEVIATHAN in
terms of man’s inability to subdue him. He compares such power to
his own (vv. Job 41:9)....
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NOTES
Job 41:1. “_Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a hook_.” The term
“Leviathan” (לִוְיָתָן) rendered here by the SEPTUAGINT,
SYRIAC, and ARABIC, “the dragon.” The VULGATE and TARGUM leave it
untra...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 41:1
The crowning description of a natural marvel—the "leviathan," or
crocodile—is now given, and with an elaboration to which there is no
parallel in the rest of Scripture. It forms,...
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And then in the next chapter God speaks of the leviathan. Now just
what the leviathan is, they're not quite sure. Some think that it is
perhaps a crocodile, some think that it's perhaps even a dragon,...
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Genesis 18:23; Genesis 19:9; Job 1:19; Job 4:15; Job 4:9;...