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Verse Job 41:24. _HARD AS A PIECE OF THE NETHER_ MILLSTONE.] Which is
required to be harder than that which runs above....
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HIS HEART IS AS FIRM AS A STONE - As hard; as solid. Bochart remarks
that the word “heart” here is not to be regarded as denoting the
“courage” of the animal, as it sometimes does, but the heart
liter...
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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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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 HEART IS AS FIRM AS A STONE; YEA, AS HARD AS A PIECE OF THE
NETHER MILLSTONE._
Heart. 'In large beasts, which are less acute in feeling, there is
great firmness of the heart, and slower motion'...
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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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If the man was curious, he might see the crocodile. But if the man was
sensible, he would run away.
_THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES: PEOPLE TRY TO FRIGHTEN THE CROCODILE_
V26 A sword does not hurt a crocod...
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HIS HEART — _i.e._, his nature, his disposition. This seems to be
the meaning, rather than the physical organ of life....
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_[Job 41:16]_ לִ֭בֹּו יָצ֣וּק כְּמֹו
־אָ֑בֶן וְ֝...
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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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_Power. Hebrew and Septuagint, "none like him on earth," for bulk. ---
One. Septuagint, "made to be played with, or beaten, by my angels."
(Haydock)_...
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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 HEART IS AS FIRM AS A STONE; YEA, AS HARD AS A PIECE OF THE NETHER
[MILLSTONE]. Which must be understood not of the substance but of the
qualities of it, being bold, courageous, undaunted, and unm...
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His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether
[millstone].
Ver. 24. _His heart is as firm as a stone_] He is _corpore et corde
validissimus._ Of the sword fish, Plutarch sait...
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_In his neck remaineth strength_, &c. Houbigant's translation of this
is excellent; _Strength has its dwelling_ (so ילין עז, _jalin
gnoz_, literally signifies) _on his neck_ His head and body are firm...
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His heart is as firm as a stone, molded into a solid piece, YEA, AS
HARD AS A PIECE OF THE NETHER MILLSTONE, which was always particularly
hard, in order to bear the movement of the grinding....
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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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HIS HEART; either,
1. That part of the body is most firm, and hard, and strong. Or,
2. His courage is invincible; he is void of fear for himself, and of
compassion to others, which is oft called _ha...
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Job 41:24 heart H3820 hard H3332 (H8803) stone H68 hard H3332 (H8803)
lower H6400 H8482
as hard -...
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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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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 41:24 HEART in this verse represents the chest (see
Exodus 28:29)....
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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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Isaiah 48:4; Jeremiah 5:3; Zechariah 7:12...
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Nether mill — stone — Which being to bear the weight of the upper,
ought to be the harder and stronger of the two....