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Verse Job 41:7. _CANST THOU FILL HIS SKIN WITH BARBED IRONS?_] This
refers to some kind of harpoon work, similar to that employed in
taking _whales_, and which they might use for some other kinds of...
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CANST THOU FILL HIS SKIN WITH BARBED IRONS? - Referring to its
thickness and impenetrability. A common method of taking fish is by
the spear; but it is here said that the leviathan could not be caught...
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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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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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The impossibility of capturing the animal....
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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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_CANST THOU FILL HIS SKIN WITH BARBED IRONS? OR HIS HEAD WITH FISH
SPEARS?_
His hide is not penetrable, as that of fish....
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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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You can kill other river animals for their meat. But it is very
difficult to kill a crocodile. The crocodile is too fierce. And its
skin is too hard to cut with a sword or another long knife....
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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 40:31]_ הַֽ תְמַלֵּ֣א בְ שֻׂכֹּ֣ות
עֹורֹ֑ו...
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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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(1) В¶ Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue
with a cord which thou lettest down? (2) Canst thou put an hook into
his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? (3) Will he make m...
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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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CANST THOU FILL HIS SKIN WITH BARBED IRONS? OR HIS HEAD WITH FISH
SPEARS?] This seems not so well to agree with the whale; whose skin,
and the several parts of his body, are to be pierced with harpoon...
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Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish
spears?
Ver. 7. _Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons?_]
_Harpagonibus._ Heb. With thorns; _sc._ to pull him to the shore?
Opia...
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_Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons?_ A whale's skin you may;
but the skin of a crocodile is so hard that an iron, or spear, will
not pierce it. It may, however, be understood also of the whal...
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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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This may be understood, either,
1. Of the whale. And whereas it is objected that the whales at this
day are taken in this manner, and therefore this cannot be understood
of them; it may be replied, b...
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Job 41:7 fill H4390 (H8762) skin H5785 harpoons H7905 head H7218
fishing H1709 spears H6767
Canst - The Leviathan,...
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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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Job 41:26...
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Fill — A whale's you may: but the skin of a crocodile is so hard
that an iron or spear will not pierce it....