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Verse Job 41:15. HIS _SCALES_ ARE HIS _PRIDE_] They are impenetrable,
as we have already seen....
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HIS SCALES ARE HIS PRIDE - Margin, “strong pieces of shields.” The
literal translation of this would be, “Pride, the strong of
shields;” that is, the strong shields. There can be no doubt that
there 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)
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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HIS SCALES ARE HIS PRIDE— _Strong scales cover his back._ Heath....
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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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_HIS SCALES ARE HIS PRIDE, SHUT UP TOGETHER AS WITH A CLOSE SEAL._
Rather х_ 'ªPIYQEEY_ (H650) _ MAAGINIYM_ (H4043)], his furrows of
shields (as 'tubes' 'channels,' note, Job 40:18) are his pride - i...
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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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_[Job 41:7]_ גַּ֭אֲוָה אֲפִיקֵ֣י
מָֽגִנִּ֑ים סָ֝ג֗וּר חֹותָ֥ם צָֽר׃...
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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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_Stone. Pineda understands this of the whale's heart. Others suppose
that it alludes to its cruel and fearless temper. (Menochius) --- The
Arabs call a valiant man, "heart of stone." (Calmet) --- Smit...
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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, a...
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[HIS] SCALES [ARE HIS] PRIDE, SHUT UP TOGETHER [AS WITH] A CLOSE SEAL.
This is notoriously true of the crocodile, whose back and tail are
covered with scales, which are in a measure impenetrable and
i...
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Job 41:15 [His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a
close seal.
Ver. 15. _His scales are his pride_] They are like so many glistering
shields, wherein he puts his confidence and take...
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_His scales are his pride_ He prides and pleases himself in his strong
and mighty scales. Hebrew, אפיקי מגנים, _aphikee maginnim,
robusta scutorum, the strength_, or _strong things, of his shields are...
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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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SCALES:
_ Heb._ strong pieces of shields...
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He prides and pleaseth himself in his strong and mighty scales. Heb.
_His strong shields_ (i.e. scales) are _his pride_. Or, (as other,
both ancient and modern, interpreters render it,)_ his body_, (o...
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Job 41:15 rows H650 scales H4043 pride H1346 up H5462 (H8803) tightly
H6862 seal H2368
scales - Heb. strong pieces of shields
pride - Jeremiah 9:23
a close - Revelation 5:2-3, Revelation 5:5...
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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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Jeremiah 9:23; Revelation 5:2; Revelation 5:3; Revelation 5:5...
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Shut — Closely compacted together, as things that are fastened
together by a seal. This likewise is true of the crocodile, but the
skin of the whale is smooth and entire without any scales at all....