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OUT OF HIS NOSTRILS GOETH SMOKE - See the quotations on Job 41:19.
This appearance of the crocodile, or alligator, has been often
noticed. Bertram, in his “Travels in North and South Carolina,” p.
116...
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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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Description of the parts of Leviathan....
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The monster breathes smoke and flame....
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These verses refer probably to the animal's emergence from the water,
when the long-repressed hot breath is blown out along with water from
his mouth, and shines in the sun like a fiery stream....
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_as out of a seething pot or caldron_ Rather perhaps, LIKE A SEETHING
POT WITH RUSHES, i. e. with a fire of rushes....
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OUT OF HIS MOUTH GO BURNING LAMPS, &C.— This is nearer the truth,
says Dr. Young, than at first view may be imagined. The crocodile,
according to the naturalists, lying long under water, and being 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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_OUT OF HIS NOSTRILS GOETH SMOKE, AS OUT OF A SEETHING POT OR
CALDRON._ SEETHING - boiling: literally, blow under, a pot under which
a fire is blown х_ DUWD_ (H1732) _ NAAPUWACH _ (H5301)].
CALDRON,...
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CALDRON] The crocodile's breath is likened to vapour that rises from a
steaming pot.
22B. RV 'And terror danceth before him.'
25B. RV 'By reason of consternation they are beside themselves.' But
the...
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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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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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These verses are difficult to understand. In the EasyEnglish
translation, we have put some words in brackets (…). These words are
not in the original Book of Job. We have included these words to help...
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OUT OF HIS NOSTRILS GOETH SMOKE, AS OUT OF A SEETHING POT OR CALDRON.
— The last word is uncertain: it is the same as was rendered in the
Authorised Version “hook” at Job 41:2; and taking the same sen...
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_[Job 41:12]_ מִ֭ נְּחִירָיו יֵצֵ֣א עָשָׁ֑ן
כְּ...
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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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_Hammer. Septuagint Greek: sphura, means also, "the bottom of a rock."
This would not overwhelm the whale; as some are represented like
floating islands. Protestants, "darts." (Haydock) --- Chaldean,...
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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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OUT OF HIS NOSTRILS GOETH FORTH SMOKE, AS [OUT] OF A SEETHING POT OR
CALDRON. In which flesh or anything else is boiling. It is observed
that there is a likeness between the crocodile and the river ho...
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Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or
caldron.
Ver. 20. _Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, &c._] While his meat
heateth in his stomach for concoction; as if fire were put unde...
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_Out of his mouth go burning lamps_ “This,” says Dr. Young, “is
nearer truth than at first view may be imagined. The crocodile, says
the naturalists, lying long under water, and being there forced to...
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Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or cauldron,
as when a kettle is heated over a strongly smoking fire of reeds, all
this describing the snorting and fretting of the crocodile...
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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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Heb. _pool_. So a great caldron is called, because it sends forth a
great smoke, as a pool doth vapours; as in like manner the great
brazen laver in the temple is called a sea, for the great quantity...
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Job 41:20 Smoke H6227 out H3318 (H8799) nostrils H5156 boiling H5301
(H8803) pot H1731 rushes H100
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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,...