-
Verse Job 41:31. _HE MAKETH THE DEEP TO BOIL LIKE A POT_] This is
occasioned by strongly agitating the waters at or near the bottom; and
the froth which arises to the top from this agitation may have...
-
HE MAKETH THE DEEP TO BOIL LIKE A POT - In his rapid motion through
it. The word “deep” (מצולה _m__e__tsôlâh_) may refer to
any deep place - either of the sea, of a river, or of mire, Psalms
69:2. I...
-
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)...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
_HE MAKETH THE DEEP TO BOIL LIKE A POT: HE MAKETH THE SEA LIKE A POT
OF OINTMENT._
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot - whenever he moves.
SEA - the Nile (Isaiah 19:5; Nahum 3:8).
POT OF OINTME...
-
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...
-
He lashes the water into foam. LIKE A POT OF OINTMENT] perhaps a
reference to the strong musky smell of the crocodile....
-
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...
-
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...
-
THE SEA — _i.e._, not necessarily the salt water, for the Nile is
still called the sea by the Arabs, and so with many other large
rivers. Example, the “sea-wall” of the Thames below Gravesend....
-
_[Job 41:23]_ יַרְתִּ֣יחַ כַּ † סִּ֣יר
מְצוּלָ֑ה...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
He maketh the deep to (k) boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a
pot of ointment.
(k) Either he makes the sea to seem like it is boiling by his
wallowing, or else he spouts water in such abundance...
-
(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...
-
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...
-
HE MAKETH THE DEEP TO BOIL \K\ like a pot,.... Which is all in a from
through the violent agitation and motion of the waves, caused by its
tossing and tumbling about; which better suits with the whale...
-
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of
ointment.
Ver. 31. _He maketh the deep to boil like a pot_] He troubleth the
whole ocean, he maketh a mighty commotion in the se...
-
_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...
-
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot, namely, by his threshings and
slashings of the water; HE MAKETH THE SEA LIKE A POT OF OINTMENT, all
frothy and foamy as a result of his tumbling and rushing in t...
-
JOB'S WEAKNESS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE CROCODILE...
-
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...
-
THE DEEP; the deep waters, or the sea, which is called _the deep_,
PSALMS 107:24 JONAH 2:3, as it is explained in the next clause. TO
BOIL LIKE A POT; to swell, and foam, and froth by his strong and
v...
-
Job 41:31 deep H4688 boil H7570 (H8686) pot H5518 makes H7760 (H8799)
sea H3220 ointment H4841...
-
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...
-
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...
-
_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...
-
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)....
-
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...
-
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,...
-
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,...
-
1 Kings 7:45; 2 Chronicles 4:16; 2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 4:39; 2 Kin
-
Boil — 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. The sea — The great river Nile, is called a sea,
bot...