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Verse Job 41:32. _HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM_] In certain
states of the weather a rapid motion through the water disengages many
sparks of phosphoric fire. I have seen this at sea; once part...
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HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM - This refers doubtless to the
white foam of the waters through which he passes. If this were spoken
of some monster that commonly resides in the ocean, it would no...
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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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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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The verse refers to the shining track which his swift darting through
the water leaves behind him....
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ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP TO BE HOARY— _He accounteth the deep as his
habitation._ Heath. Houbigant renders the verse, _He leaves behind him
a shining path; he esteems the deep to be dry land.—Rutilant...
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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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_HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM; ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP TO BE
HOARY._
Path - the foam on his track.
HOARY - as the hair of the aged....
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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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The crocodile leaves when it chooses to leave. Its legs are short, so
its body leaves a track in the mud.
It stirs the water as it returns to the river. And the crocodile also
leaves a track of bubbl...
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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 41:24]_ אַ֭חֲרָיו יָאִ֣יר נָתִ֑יב
יַחְשֹׁ֖ב תְּהֹ֣ום...
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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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He maketh a path to (l) shine after him; [one] would think the deep
[to be] hoary.
(l) That is, a white froth and shining stream before him....
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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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HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM,.... Upon the sea, by raising a
white from upon it, through its vehement motion as it passes along, or
by the spermaceti it casts out and leaves behind it. It is sa...
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He maketh a path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to
be] hoary.
Ver. 32. _He maketh a path to shine after him_] A ship doth so, much
more a whale.
_ One would think the deep to be hoa...
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_He maketh the deep_ The deep waters; _to boil like a pot _ To swell,
and foam, and froth, by his strong and vehement motion, as any liquor
does when it is boiled in a pot, especially boiling ointment...
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He maketh a path to shine after him, his trail, or wake, on the
surface of the water is shiny; ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP TO BE HOARY,
the foam looking like gray hair scattered on the water....
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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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When he raiseth himself to the top of the waters, he doth as it were
plough it up, and make large furrows, and causeth a white froth or
foam upon the waters....
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Job 41:32 shining H215 (H8686) wake H5410 behind H310 think H2803
(H8799) deep H8415 hair H7872...
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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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_He maketh a path to shine after him._
PHOSPHORESCENCE
What was that illumined path? It was phosphorescence. You find it in
the wake of a ship in the night, especially after rough weather.
Phosphores...
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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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Shine — By the white froth or foam upon the waters. The same may be
observed in the wake of a ship by night....