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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 41:13

Who can discover the face of his garment, &c.— Who can strip off his outer robe? Who can come within his double row of teeth? Heath. See the next verse. The crocodile's mouth is exceedingly wide. Pliny says, strongly, "When he gapes, fit totum os, he becomes all mouth."

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See also Job 41:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 41:13. _WHO CAN DISCOVER THE FACE OF HIS GARMENT?_] Who can rip up the hide of this terrible monster? Who can take away his covering, in order to pierce his vitals?...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHO CAN DISCERN THE FACE OF HIS GARMENT? - literally, “Who can reveal the face, that is, the appearance, of his garment?” This “garment” is undoubtedly his skin. The meaning seems to be, “His hard and...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DISCOVER. uncover. WITH. within. DOUBLE BRIDLE. double row of teeth....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The terrible jaws of the animal....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verse reads, Who hath uncovered the face of his garment? Or who will enter into his double jaw? The "face of his garment" seems to mean the upper side or surface of his coat of scales, his armo...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _WHO CAN DISCOVER THE FACE OF HIS GARMENT? OR WHO CAN COME TO HIM WITH HIS DOUBLE BRIDLE?_ Discover - `Who can uncover the surface of his garment?' (akin, Job 10:11:) strip off the hard outer coat wi...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his double bridle?'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHO CAN DISCOVER... ? — Rather, _Who can strip off his outer garment? i.e.,_ his scales, which are the covering of his skin. _Who shall come within his double bridle, i.e.,_ the doubling of his jaw? W...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Job 41:5]_ מִֽי ־גִ֭לָּה פְּנֵ֣י לְבוּשֹׁ֑ו בְּ...

  • 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

    Who can discover the face (d) of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double (e) bridle? (d) That is, who dare pull off his skin? (e) Who dare put a bridle in his mouth?...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Neck. Some deny that the crocodile has any, being formed like a lizard. But it is a dispute about words. The animal turns with difficulty, so that Thomas Gage assures us he escaped one by going in di...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • 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

    WHO CAN DISCOVER THE FACE OF HIS GARMENT?.... Or rather uncover it? Not the sea, which Mr. Broughton represents as the garment of the whale; who can strip him of it, or take him out of that, and bring...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Who can discover the face of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle? Ver. 13. _Who can discover the face of his garment?_] That is, saith Piscator, who can pull him out of the...

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

    _Who can discover_ מי גלה, _mi gillah, Quis retexit, vel nudavit_, Who _hath uncovered_, or _made naked_, or hath taken off from him, _the face of his garment?_ That is, his skin, which covers the who...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Who can discover the face of his garment, the scaly coat of mail on his back? This is so firmly connected with his body that no man can take it off. OR WHO CAN COME TO HIM WITH HIS DOUBLE BRIDLE? Who...

  • 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)

    WITH: Or, within...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DISCOVER, or, _uncover_, or take off from him. THE FACE OF HIS GARMENT; the upper or outward part of his garment, or the garment itself; the word face being oft redundant, as GENESIS 1:2, GENESIS 23:3...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 41:13 remove H1540 (H8765) outer H6440 coat H3830 approach H935 (H8799) double H3718 bridle H7448 with

  • 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

    2 Kings 19:28; James 3:3; Psalms 32:9...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Discover — Or, uncover, or take off from him. Face — The upper or outward part of his garment, or, the garment itself: the word face being often redundant. And by the garment is meant the skin which c...

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