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Verse Job 41:14. _THE DOORS OF HIS FACE?_] His jaws which are most
tremendous....
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WHO CAN OPEN THE DOORS OF HIS FACE? - His mouth. The same term is sti
1 used to denote the mouth - from its resemblance to a door. The idea
is, that no one would dare to force open his mouth. This agr...
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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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_who can open_ Or, WHO HATH OPENED. The "doors of his face" is an
expression for his "mouth" which has something artificial and forced
in it.
_his teeth are terrible_ The jaws of the crocodile are ve...
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The terrible jaws of the animal....
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Description of the parts of Leviathan....
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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...
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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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_WHO CAN OPEN THE DOORS OF HIS FACE? HIS TEETH ARE TERRIBLE ROUND
ABOUT._
Doors of ... face - his jaws. His teeth are 60 in number, larger in
proportion than his body, some standing out, some serrate...
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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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DOORS OF HIS FACE] his mouth. 14B. RV 'Round about his teeth is
terror.'
18A. RV 'His neesings (i.e. sneezings or snortings) flash forth
light.' This and the following vv. poetically describe the sno...
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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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WHO CAN OPEN THE DOORS OF HIS FACE?_ — i.e.,_ his mouth. Round about
his teeth is terror....
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_[Job 41:6]_ דַּלְתֵ֣י פָ֭נָיו מִ֣י
פִתֵּ֑חַ סְבִיבֹ֖ות...
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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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Who can (f) open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible round
about.
(f) Who dare look in his mouth?...
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_Place; though people may shoot at him, they will make no impression,
chap. xl. 20, 26. (Haydock) --- If God send his thunderbolts at him,
the monster must however perish. (Calmet) --- Symmachus, "His...
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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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WHO CAN OPEN THE DOORS OF HIS FACE?.... Of his mouth, the jaws
thereof, which are like a pair of folding doors: the jaws of a
crocodile have a prodigious opening. Peter Martyr u speaks of one,
whose j...
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Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible round
about.
Ver. 14. _Who can open the doors of his face?_] The two leaved doors
of his jaws, to let in a bridle? Samson dared to venture...
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_Who can open the doors of his face?_ Namely, his mouth. If it be
open, no one dares to enter within it, as he now said; and here he
adds, none dare open it. _His teeth are terrible round about_ This...
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Who can open the doors of his face, the mighty, slashing jaws? HIS
TEETH ARE TERRIBLE ROUND ABOUT, their terror being all the greater
since his sixty-six teeth are not covered by the lips....
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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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THE DOORS OF HIS FACE, to wit, his mouth. If it be open, none dare
enter within it, as he now said; and here he adds, that if it be shut,
none dare open it. HIS TEETH ARE TERRIBLE ROUND ABOUT: this is...
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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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Daniel 7:7; Ecclesiastes 12:4; Job 38:10; Proverbs 30:14; Psalms 57:4
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Doors — His mouth. If it be open, none dare enter within, and if it
be shut, none dare open it....