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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...
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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...
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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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The commotion he raises in the deep.
The second clause of the verse hardly refers to fermentation in the
pot of ointment, but rather to the foaming mixture of ingredients....
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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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_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...
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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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He lashes the water into foam. LIKE A POT OF OINTMENT] perhaps a
reference to the strong musky smell of the crocodile....
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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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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...
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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....
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_[Job 41:23]_ יַרְתִּ֣יחַ כַּ † סִּ֣יר
מְצוּלָ֑ה...
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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 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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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 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...
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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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1 Kings 7:45; 2 Chronicles 4:16; 2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 4:39; 2 Kin
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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...