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Verse Job 41:25. _BY REASON OF BREAKINGS THEY PURIFY THEMSELVES._] No
version, either ancient or modern, appears to have understood this
verse; nor is its true sense known. The _Septuagint_ have, "Wh...
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WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF - When he rouses himself for an attack or
in self-defense.
THE MIGHTY ARE AFRAID - The Vulgate renders this “anqels.” The
meaning is, that he produces alarm on those who ar...
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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 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 40:15 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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BREAKINGS. terrors.
PURIFY THEMSELVES. mistake their way; are bewildered; or, beside
themselves....
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WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF, &C.— _When he raiseth up himself, the
mighty fly; the princes quit their purposed journey._ Houb. Heath
renders the last clause; _for very terror they fall to the ground;_...
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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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_WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF, THE MIGHTY ARE AFRAID: BY REASON OF
BREAKINGS THEY PURIFY THEMSELVES._
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid. The crocodile: a
type of the awe which the Creat...
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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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BY REASON OF BREAKINGS — _i.e.,_ the waves he makes in the water, or
the breakings he makes among the plants and trees in the water.
THEY PURIFY THEMSELVES — _i.e._, they are beside themselves; they...
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_[Job 41:17]_ מִ֭ שֵּׂתֹו יָג֣וּרוּ אֵלִ֑ים
מִ֝...
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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 is king, &c. He is superior in strength to all that are great and
strong amongst living creatures: mystically it is understood of the
devil, who is king over all the proud. (Challoner) (St. Gregory...
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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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_AN AWE-INSPIRING OBJECT_
‘When He raiseth up Himself, the mighty are afraid.’
Job 41:25
Leviathan is almost certainly the crocodile, and there is the
playfulness of a great tenderness in the sugge...
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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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WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF,.... Not out of the waters, but above the
surface of them, so as that his large bulk, his terrible jaws and
teeth, are seem;
THE MIGHTY ARE AFRAID; not only fishes and othe...
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When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of
breakings they purify themselves.
Ver. 25. _When he raiselh up himself, the mighty are afraid_] When he
shows himself like some moving...
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_When he raiseth up himself_ Showing himself upon the top of the
waters; _the mighty are afraid_ Even the stout-hearted, who used to be
above fear. _By reason of breakings_ By reason of their great da...
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When he raiseth up himself, with all this fierceness of his heart, THE
MIGHTY ARE AFRAID; BY REASON OF BREAKINGS THEY PURIFY THEMSELVES, that
is, they are so overcome with astonishment and terror that...
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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 UP HIMSELF; showing himself upon the top of the
waters. Or, _because of his height_, or _greatness_, or _majesty_; for
he is represented as a king, JOB 41:31. _The mighty_; even the
st...
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Job 41:25 up H7613 mighty H352 afraid H1481 (H8799) crashings H7667
beside H2398 (H8691)
by -...
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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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Jonah 1:4; Psalms 107:28...
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Raiseth — Upon the top of the waters. Mighty — Even the stout —
hearted. Breakings — By reason of their great danger and distress;
which is expressed by this very word, Psalms 60:2; Jonah 2:4. Purify...