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Job 41:22-25

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 crocodile. Dangerous knives have no effect. v27 The crocodile will bend a metal knife. Or, the crocodile will break the knife.

v28 If you shoot an arrow, the crocodile will not leave. If you throw a stone, your stone seems like dust to the crocodile.

v29 The crocodile thinks that your heaviest stick is like straw. And the crocodile laughs if you try to fight it.

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See also Job 41:22-25 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 41:22. _IN HIS NECK REMAINETH STRENGTH_] Literally, "strength has its dwelling in his neck." The _neck_ is the seat of strength of most animals; but the _head_ and _shoulders_ must be here m...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IN HIS NECK REMAINETH STRENGTH - That is, strength is “permanently residing” there. It is not assumed for the moment, but his neck is so constructed as to be the abode of strength. The word here rende...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    His strength and hardness of muscle....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verse means, In his neck dwelleth strength, And terror leapeth up before him. His neck is the dwelling-place, the home of strength; and wherever he appears terror leaps up. The prosaic meaning...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Description of the parts of Leviathan....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IN HIS NECK REMAINETH STRENGTH, &C.— Houbigant renders this admirably; _Strength has its dwelling on his neck; before him marches destruction._ See his note....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IN HIS NECK REMAINETH STRENGTH, AND SORROW IS TURNED INTO JOY BEFORE HIM._ Remaineth - abideth permanently. His chief strength is in the neck. SORROW - anxiety or dismay personified. IS TURNED I...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SORROW IS TURNED INTO JOY BEFORE HIM. — Literally, _and before him danceth fear,_ or _pining sorrow_ _exulteth before him._ A marvellous personification of the terror which goes with him wherever he g...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Job 41:14]_ בְּֽ֭ צַוָּארֹו יָלִ֣ין עֹ֑ז וּ֝...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    In his neck remaineth strength, and (h) sorrow is turned into joy before him. (h) Nothing is painful or hard for him....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    When. Hebrew, "a pot of ointment." This boils out very much. (Calmet) --- The flesh of the crocodile has also the smell of musk; (Bochart) and Peter Martyr asserts, that Columbus found some in America...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IN HIS NECK REMAINETH STRENGTH,.... This is thought to be an argument against the whale, which is said to have no neck: but whatever joins the head and body may be called the neck, though ever so smal...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. Ver. 22. _In his neck remaineth strength_] Aristotle saith, that among fishes the dolphin, whale, and such as breathe, have n...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB'S WEAKNESS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE CROCODILE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SORROW IS TURNED INTO JOY: _ Heb._ sorrow rejoiceth...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    No one, not even those with iron weapons and arrows, can bring him down. All weapons of the time were of no avail against him, this is another reason. must rule out the modern crocodile or any other m...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    His neck is exceeding strong. This is meant either 1. Of the whale, who though he hath no neck no more than other fishes have, yet he hath a part in some sort answerable to it, where the head and bod...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 41:22 Strength H5797 dwells H3885 (H8799) neck H6677 sorrow H1670 dances H1750 (H8799) before H6440 i

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:55; Hosea 13:14; Job 39:19; Job 40:16...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And sorrow — Sorrow is his companion and harbinger, which attends upon him wheresoever he goes. So anger and fear are said by the poets to accompany the God of war....

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