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Verse Job 41:15. HIS _SCALES_ ARE HIS _PRIDE_] They are impenetrable,
as we have already seen....
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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...
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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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HIS SCALES ARE HIS PRIDE— _Strong scales cover his back._ Heath....
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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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_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:...
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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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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 41:7]_ גַּ֭אֲוָה אֲפִיקֵ֣י
מָֽגִנִּ֑ים סָ֝ג֗וּר חֹותָ֥ם...
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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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_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...
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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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[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...
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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...
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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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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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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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SCALES:
_ Heb._ strong pieces of shields...
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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...
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Job 41:15 rows H650 scales H4043 pride H1346 up H5462 (H8803) tightly
H6862 seal H2368
scales - Heb. strong pieces of shi
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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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Jeremiah 9:23; Revelation 5:2; Revelation 5:3; Revelation 5:5...
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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....