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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...
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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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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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_[Job 40:29]_ הַֽ תְשַׂחֶק ־בֹּ֖ו כַּ †
צִּפֹּ֑ור וְ֝ תִקְשְׁרֶ֗נּוּ לְ
נַעֲרֹותֶֽיךָ׃...
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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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(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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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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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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Job 41:5 play H7832 (H8762) bird H6833 leash H7194 (H8799) maidens
H5291
play - Judges 16:25-30
bind - Job 28:11...
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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...