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Verse Job 41:5. _WILT THOU PLAY WITH HIM_] Is he such a creature as
thou canst tame; and of which thou canst make a _pet_, and give as a
plaything to thy little girls? נערותיך _naarotheycha_; probably...
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WILT THOU PLAY WITH HIM AS WITH A BIRD? - A bird that is tamed. The
art of taming birds was doubtless early practiced, and they were kept
for amusement. But the leviathan could not thus be tamed.
OR W...
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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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Wilt thou make a pet thing of him? The commentators quote Catullus,
_passer, deliciœ meœ puellœ_....
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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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_WILT THOU PLAY WITH HIM AS WITH A BIRD? OR WILT THOU BIND HIM FOR THY
MAIDENS?_
A bird - that is tamed. BIND HIM FOR THY MAIDENS? - with a thread or
string, as a pet or toy for them....
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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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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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_[Job 40:29]_ הַֽ תְשַׂחֶק ־בֹּ֖ו כַּ † צִּפ
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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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(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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WILT THOU PLAY WITH HIM AS [WITH] A BIRD?.... In the hand or cage:
leviathan plays in the sea, but there is no playing with him by land,
Psalms 104:26;
OR WILT THOU BIND HIM FOR THY MAIDENS? or young...
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Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for
thy maidens?
Ver. 5. _Wilt thou play with him as with a bird?_] Shall he make thee
sport, as those poor birds that serve as pastime...
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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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Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, as one coddles and teases a
pet canary? OR WILT THOU BIND HIM FOR THY MAIDENS, making him a pet of
the female house-slaves? The answer is implied in every case:...
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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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AS WITH A BIRD; as children play with little birds kept in cages, or
tied with strings, which they do at their pleasure, and without any
fear? FOR THY MAIDENS; for thy little daughters; which he menti...
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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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Job 28:11; Judges 16:25...