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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Job 41:15

His scales are his pride, the bony shields of his back, divided by furrows, shut up together as with a close seal, fitted together with the exactness of a seal pressed down on paper or parchment.

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See also Job 41:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 41:15. HIS _SCALES_ ARE HIS _PRIDE_] They are impenetrable, as we have already seen....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HIS SCALES ARE HIS PRIDE - Margin, “strong pieces of shields.” The literal translation of this would be, “Pride, the strong of shields;” that is, the strong shields. There can be no doubt that there i...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    His armour of scales....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _his scales are his pride_ Rather, THE ROWS OF HIS SHIELDS ARE A PRIDE. Each of his scales is a shield, and they are disposed in rows, or courses, lit. _pipes_(ch. Job 40:18), so called from their bei...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Description of the parts of Leviathan....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HIS SCALES ARE HIS PRIDE— _Strong scales cover his back._ Heath....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HIS SCALES ARE HIS PRIDE, SHUT UP TOGETHER AS WITH A CLOSE SEAL._ Rather х_ 'ªPIYQEEY_ (H650) _ MAAGINIYM_ (H4043)], his furrows of shields (as 'tubes' 'channels,' note, Job 40:18) are his pride - i:...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Job 41:7]_ גַּ֭אֲוָה אֲפִיקֵ֣י מָֽגִנִּ֑ים סָ֝ג֗וּר חֹותָ֥ם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Stone. Pineda understands this of the whale's heart. Others suppose that it alludes to its cruel and fearless temper. (Menochius) --- The Arabs call a valiant man, "heart of stone." (Calmet) --- Smit...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [HIS] SCALES [ARE HIS] PRIDE, SHUT UP TOGETHER [AS WITH] A CLOSE SEAL. This is notoriously true of the crocodile, whose back and tail are covered with scales, which are in a measure impenetrable and i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Job 41:15 [His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal. Ver. 15. _His scales are his pride_] They are like so many glistering shields, wherein he puts his confidence and take...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SCALES: _ Heb._ strong pieces of shields...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He prides and pleaseth himself in his strong and mighty scales. Heb. _His strong shields_ (i.e. scales) are _his pride_. Or, (as other, both ancient and modern, interpreters render it,)_ his body_, (o...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 41:15 rows H650 scales H4043 pride H1346 up H5462 (H8803) tightly H6862 seal H2368 scales - Heb. strong pieces of shi

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 9:23; Revelation 5:2; Revelation 5:3; Revelation 5:5...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Shut — Closely compacted together, as things that are fastened together by a seal. This likewise is true of the crocodile, but the skin of the whale is smooth and entire without any scales at all....

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