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Verse Job 41:10. _NONE_ IS SO _FIERCE THAT DARE STIR HIM UP_] The most
courageous of men dare not provoke the crocodile to fight, or even
attempt to rouse him, when, sated with fish, he takes his repo...
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NONE IS SO FIERCE THAT DARE STIR HIM UP - No one has courage to rouse
and provoke him.
WHO THEN IS ABLE TO STAND BEFORE ME? - The meaning of this is plain.
It is, “If one of my creatures is so formid...
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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)
Job 41:1. The leviathan has generally been identified with...
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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 40:6 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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_NONE IS SO FIERCE THAT DARE STIR HIM UP: WHO THEN IS ABLE TO STAND
BEFORE ME?_
Fierce - courageous; foolhardy. If a man dare not attack one of my
creatures (Genesis 49:9; Numbers 24:9), who will dar...
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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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NONE IS SO FIERCE THAT DARE STIR HIM UP. — “If, therefore, the
creatures of My hand strike so much terror, how far more terrible must
I be? If thou canst not save thyself from them, how much less cans...
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_[Job 41:2]_ לֹֽא ־אַ֭כְזָר כִּ֣י
יְעוּרֶ֑נּוּ וּ מִ֥י ה֝֗וּא לְ פָנַ֥י
יִתְיַצָּֽב׃...
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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 submi...
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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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None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to (a)
stand before me?
(a) If no one dare stand against a whale, which is but a creature, who
is able to compare with God the creator?...
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_Fire, when they spout water, (Menochius) or pursue their prey open
mouthed. This description is extremely poetical, like that of anger, 2
Kings xxii. 9. (Calmet)_...
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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, a...
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NONE [IS SO] FIERCE THAT DARE STIR HIM UP,.... This seems best to
agree with the crocodile, who frequently lies down and sleeps on the
ground q, and in the water by night r; see Ezekiel 29:3; when it...
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None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand
before me?
Ver. 10. _None is so fierce that dare stir him up_] Unless he be
ambitious of his own destruction; cruel (so the word h...
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_Behold, the hope of him is in vain_ That is, the hope of taking, or
conquering him. _Shall not one be cast down, even at the sight of
him?_ Not only the fight, but the sight of him is most frightful....
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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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"WHO THEN IS HE THAT CAN STAND BEFORE ME?" The point is that neither
Job nor any man is qualified to challenge leviathan, then clearly one
is not qualified to take on his Maker! "The Lord then declar...
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THAT DARE STIR HIM UP, when he sleepeth or is quiet. None dare provoke
him to the battle. TO STAND BEFORE ME; to contend with me his Creator,
as thou, Job, dost, when one of my creatures is too hard f...
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Job 41:10 fierce H393 up H5782 (H8799) (H8675) H5782 (H8686) stand
H3320 (H8691) against H6440
dare - Genesis 49:9; Numbers 24:9; Psalms 2:11-12; Ezekiel 8:17-18
who -...
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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 Corinthians 10:22; Ezekiel 8:17; Ezekiel 8:18; Genesis 49:9;
Jeremiah 12:5; Job 40:9; Job 9:4; Numbers 24:9; Psalms 2:11; Psalms
2:12...
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Stand — To the battle. Me — To contend with me who created him?...