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Job 41:32

The verse refers to the shining track which his swift darting through the water leaves behind him.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 41:32. _HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM_] In certain states of the weather a rapid motion through the water disengages many sparks of phosphoric fire. I have seen this at sea; once part...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM - This refers doubtless to the white foam of the waters through which he passes. If this were spoken of some monster that commonly resides in the ocean, it would no...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP TO BE HOARY— _He accounteth the deep as his habitation._ Heath. Houbigant renders the verse, _He leaves behind him a shining path; he esteems the deep to be dry land.—Rutilant...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM; ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP TO BE HOARY._ Path - the foam on his track. HOARY - as the hair of the aged....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The crocodile leaves when it chooses to leave. Its legs are short, so its body leaves a track in the mud. It stirs the water as it returns to the river. And the crocodile also leaves a track of bubbl...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Job 41:24]_ אַ֭חֲרָיו יָאִ֣יר נָתִ֑יב יַחְשֹׁ֖ב תְּהֹ֣ום...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    He maketh a path to (l) shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary. (l) That is, a white froth and shining stream before him....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM,.... Upon the sea, by raising a white from upon it, through its vehement motion as it passes along, or by the spermaceti it casts out and leaves behind it. It is sa...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He maketh a path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary. Ver. 32. _He maketh a path to shine after him_] A ship doth so, much more a whale. _ One would think the deep to be hoa...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He maketh the deep_ The deep waters; _to boil like a pot _ To swell, and foam, and froth, by his strong and vehement motion, as any liquor does when it is boiled in a pot, especially boiling ointment...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He maketh a path to shine after him, his trail, or wake, on the surface of the water is shiny; ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP TO BE HOARY, the foam looking like gray hair scattered on the water....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB'S WEAKNESS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE CROCODILE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    When he raiseth himself to the top of the waters, he doth as it were plough it up, and make large furrows, and causeth a white froth or foam upon the waters....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 41:32 shining H215 (H8686) wake H5410 behind H310 think H2803 (H8799) deep H8415 hair H7872...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He maketh a path to shine after him._ PHOSPHORESCENCE What was that illumined path? It was phosphorescence. You find it in the wake of a ship in the night, especially after rough weather. Phosphores...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Genesis 1:15; Genesis 1:2; Genesis 15:15; Genesis 25:8; Genesis 42:38;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Shine — By the white froth or foam upon the waters. The same may be observed in the wake of a ship by night....

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