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Verse Job 41:25. _BY REASON OF BREAKINGS THEY PURIFY THEMSELVES._] No
version, either ancient or modern, appears to have understood this
verse; nor is its true sense known. The _Septuagint_ have, "Whe...
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WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF - When he rouses himself for an attack or
in self-defense.
THE MIGHTY ARE AFRAID - The Vulgate renders this “anqels.” The
meaning is, that he produces alarm on those who ar...
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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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BREAKINGS. terrors.
PURIFY THEMSELVES. mistake their way; are bewildered; or, beside
themselves....
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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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WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF, &C.— _When he raiseth up himself, the
mighty fly; the princes quit their purposed journey._ Houb. Heath
renders the last clause; _for very terror they fall to the ground;_...
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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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_WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF, THE MIGHTY ARE AFRAID: BY REASON OF
BREAKINGS THEY PURIFY THEMSELVES._
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid. The crocodile: a
type of the awe which the Creat...
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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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BY REASON OF BREAKINGS — _i.e.,_ the waves he makes in the water, or
the breakings he makes among the plants and trees in the water.
THEY PURIFY THEMSELVES — _i.e._, they are beside themselves; they...
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_[Job 41:17]_ מִ֭ שֵּׂתֹו יָג֣וּרוּ אֵלִ֑ים
מִ֝ שְּׁבָרִ֗ים יִתְחַטָּֽאוּ׃...
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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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He is king, &c. He is superior in strength to all that are great and
strong amongst living creatures: mystically it is understood of the
devil, who is king over all the proud. (Challoner) (St. Gregory...
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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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_AN AWE-INSPIRING OBJECT_
‘When He raiseth up Himself, the mighty are afraid.’
Job 41:25
Leviathan is almost certainly the crocodile, and there is the
playfulness of a great tenderness in the sugge...
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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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WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF,.... Not out of the waters, but above the
surface of them, so as that his large bulk, his terrible jaws and
teeth, are seem;
THE MIGHTY ARE AFRAID; not only fishes and othe...
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When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of
breakings they purify themselves.
Ver. 25. _When he raiselh up himself, the mighty are afraid_] When he
shows himself like some moving...
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_When he raiseth up himself_ Showing himself upon the top of the
waters; _the mighty are afraid_ Even the stout-hearted, who used to be
above fear. _By reason of breakings_ By reason of their great da...
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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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WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF; showing himself upon the top of the
waters. Or, _because of his height_, or _greatness_, or _majesty_; for
he is represented as a king, JOB 41:31. _The mighty_; even the
st...
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Job 41:25 up H7613 mighty H352 afraid H1481 (H8799) crashings H7667
beside H2398 (H8691)
by - Psalms 107:28; Jonah 1:4-6...
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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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Jonah 1:4; Psalms 107:28...
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Raiseth — Upon the top of the waters. Mighty — Even the stout —
hearted. Breakings — By reason of their great danger and distress;
which is expressed by this very word, Psalms 60:2; Jonah 2:4. Purify...