In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
Remaineth - abideth permanently. His chief strength is in the neck.
Sorrow - anxiety or dismay personified.
Is turned into joy - rather, danceth, exulteth х taaduwts (H1750), from duwts (H1750)]: wherever he goes, he spreads terror "before him."
Verse Job 41:22. _IN HIS NECK REMAINETH STRENGTH_] Literally, "strength has its dwelling in his neck." The _neck_ is the seat of strength of most animals; but the _head_ and _shoulders_ must be here m...
IN HIS NECK REMAINETH STRENGTH - That is, strength is “permanently residing” there. It is not assumed for the moment, but his neck is so constructed as to be the abode of strength. The word here rende...
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 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...
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...
His strength and hardness of muscle....
The verse means, In his neck dwelleth strength, And terror leapeth up before him. His neck is the dwelling-place, the home of strength; and wherever he appears terror leaps up. The prosaic meaning...
Description of the parts of Leviathan....
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...
IN HIS NECK REMAINETH STRENGTH, &C.— Houbigant renders this admirably; _Strength has its dwelling on his neck; before him marches destruction._ See his note....
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...
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...
If the man was curious, he might see the crocodile. But if the man was sensible, he would run away. _THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES: PEOPLE TRY TO FRIGHTEN THE CROCODILE_ V26 A sword does not hurt a crocod...
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...
SORROW IS TURNED INTO JOY BEFORE HIM. — Literally, _and before him danceth fear,_ or _pining sorrow_ _exulteth before him._ A marvellous personification of the terror which goes with him wherever he g...
_[Job 41:14]_ בְּֽ֭ צַוָּארֹו יָלִ֣ין עֹ֑ז וּ֝...
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...
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...
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...
In his neck remaineth strength, and (h) sorrow is turned into joy before him. (h) Nothing is painful or hard for him....
When. Hebrew, "a pot of ointment." This boils out very much. (Calmet) --- The flesh of the crocodile has also the smell of musk; (Bochart) and Peter Martyr asserts, that Columbus found some in America...
(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...
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...
IN HIS NECK REMAINETH STRENGTH,.... This is thought to be an argument against the whale, which is said to have no neck: but whatever joins the head and body may be called the neck, though ever so smal...
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. Ver. 22. _In his neck remaineth strength_] Aristotle saith, that among fishes the dolphin, whale, and such as breathe, have n...
_In his neck remaineth strength_, &c. Houbigant's translation of this is excellent; _Strength has its dwelling_ (so ילין עז, _jalin gnoz_, literally signifies) _on his neck_ His head and body are firm...
JOB'S WEAKNESS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE CROCODILE...
In his neck remaineth strength, dwelling there, making its permanent home there, AND SORROW IS TURNED INTO JOY BEFORE HIM, before his advance terror and despair leap with fearful strides, this showing...
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...
SORROW IS TURNED INTO JOY: _ Heb._ sorrow rejoiceth...
No one, not even those with iron weapons and arrows, can bring him down. All weapons of the time were of no avail against him, this is another reason. must rule out the modern crocodile or any other m...
His neck is exceeding strong. This is meant either 1. Of the whale, who though he hath no neck no more than other fishes have, yet he hath a part in some sort answerable to it, where the head and bod...
Job 41:22 Strength H5797 dwells H3885 (H8799) neck H6677 sorrow H1670 dances H1750 (H8799) before H6440 i
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...
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...
_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...
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)....
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...
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,...
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,...
1 Corinthians 15:55; Hosea 13:14; Job 39:19; Job 40:16...
And sorrow — Sorrow is his companion and harbinger, which attends upon him wheresoever he goes. So anger and fear are said by the poets to accompany the God of war....