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Verse Job 41:4. _WILL HE MAKE A COVENANT_] Canst thou _hire_ him as
thou wouldst a servant, who is to be so _attached_ to thy family as to
have _his ear bored_, that he may abide in thy house for ever...
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WILL HE MAKE A COVENANT WITH THEE? - That is, will he submit himself
to thee, and enter into a compact to serve thee? Such a compact was
made by those who agreed to serve another; and the idea here is...
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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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Will he consent to be one of thy domesticated animals, and serve thee?...
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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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The impossibility of capturing the animal....
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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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_WILL HE MAKE A COVENANT WITH THEE? WILT THOU TAKE HIM FOR A SERVANT
FOR EVER?_
Can he be tamed for domestic use? (so Job 39:10.)...
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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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WILT THOU TAKE] RV 'That thou shouldest take.'
6A. RV 'Shall the bands _of fishermen_ make traffic of him?'
MERCHANTS] lit. 'Canaanites' or 'lowlanders'on the trading route from
Syria to Egypt, who we...
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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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People keep many animals as pets. But nobody can train a crocodile to
be a tame animal. It is out of control.
MEN CANNOT HUNT FOR A CROCODILE
V6 Merchants will not bargain for the meat of the crocod...
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A SERVANT FOR EVER. — The crocodile being probably quite untameable....
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_[Job 40:28]_ הֲ יִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑ךְ
תִּ֝קָּחֶ֗נּוּ...
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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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Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take (n) him for a
servant for ever?
(n) To do your business, and be at your command?...
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Garment, or the skin. (Menochius) --- Who shall look steadfastly, or
dare to take off its skin? --- Mouth. Protestants, "Who can come to
him with his double bridle?" (Haydock) though it be of the grea...
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(1) В¶ Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue
with a cord which thou lettest down? (2) Canst thou put an hook into
his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? (3) Will he make m...
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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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WILL HE MAKE A COVENANT WITH THEE?.... To live in friendship or
servitude, as follows;
WILT THOU TAKE HIM FOR A SERVANT FOR EVER? oblige him to serve thee
for life, or reduce him to perpetual bondage...
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Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant
for ever?
Ver. 4. _Will he make a covenant with thee?_] And compound, where he
cannot conquer.
_ Wilt thou take him for a servant f...
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_Will he make supplications unto thee?_ Doth he dread thy anger or
power? Or will he earnestly beg thy favour? It is a metaphor from men
in distress, who use these means to them to whose power they ar...
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Will he make a covenant with thee, an agreement to submit himself?
WILT THOU TAKE HIM FOR A SERVANT FOREVER, making him a slave?...
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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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A COVENANT, to wit, to do thee faithful service, as the next words
explain it. Canst thou bring him into bondage, and force him to serve
thee?...
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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 20:31; Deuteronomy 15:17; Exodus 21:6; Genesis 1:28; Psalms 8