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                        Verse Job 41:23. _THE FLAKES OF HIS FLESH_] His muscles are strongly
and firmly compacted.... 
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                        THE FLAKES OF HIS FLESH ARE JOINED TOGETHER - Margin, “fallings.”
The Hebrew word used here means anything “falling,” or
“pendulous,” and the reference here is, probably, to the pendulous
parts of the... 
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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)... 
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                        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... 
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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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                        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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                        _THE FLAKES OF HIS FLESH ARE JOINED TOGETHER: THEY ARE FIRM IN
THEMSELVES; THEY CANNOT BE MOVED._
Flakes - rather, dewlaps. That which falls down: margin, fallings х_
MAPAAL_ (H4651), from _ NAAPAL_... 
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                        41:23 fused (a-11) Or 'molten,' as ch. 37.18. the same word as 'firm'
in ver. 24.... 
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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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                        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... 
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                        THE FLAKES OF HIS FLESH — _i.e.,_ the parts that in other animals
hang down: _e.g.,_ dewlaps, &c., are not flabby, as with them.... 
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                        _[Job 41:15]_ מַפְּלֵ֣י בְשָׂרֹ֣ו דָבֵ֑קוּ
יָצ֥וּק עָ֝לָ֗יו... 
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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 submis... 
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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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                        _The deep as growing old. Growing hoary, as it were, with the froth
which he leaves behind him. (Challoner) --- The Vulgate has well
expressed the force of the original, and shews the rapidity with wh... 
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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, an... 
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                        THE FLAKES OF HIS FLESH ARE JOINED TOGETHER,.... The muscles of his
hefty are not flaccid and flabby, but solid and firmly compacted;
THEY ARE FIRM IN THEMSELVES; THEY CANNOT BE MOVED; that is, not v... 
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                        The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in
themselves; they cannot be moved.
 Ver. 23. _The flakes of his flesh are joined together_] Heb. The
failings, or the refuse and vilest par... 
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                        _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... 
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                        The flakes of his flesh are joined together, his very flanks and
dewlaps make no impression of looseness or flabbiness; THEY ARE FIRM
IN THEMSELVES; THEY CANNOT BE MOVED, being fixed upon him in rows... 
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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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                        THE FLAKES:
_ Heb._ the fallings... 
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                        THE FLAKES, or _parts_, which stick out, or hang loose, and are ready
to fall from other fishes or creatures. OF HIS FLESH: the word _flesh_
is used of fishes also, as LEVITICUS 11:11 1 CORINTHIANS 15... 
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                        Job 41:23 folds H4651 flesh H1320 together H1692 (H8804) firm H3332
(H8803) moved H4131 (H8735) 
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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 41:17...