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Verse Job 41:6. _SHALL THY COMPANIONS MAKE A BANQUET_] Canst thou and
thy friends feast on him as ye were wont to do on a camel sacrificed
for this purpose? Or, canst thou dispose of his flesh to the...
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SHALL THY COMPANIONS MAKE A BANQUET OF HIM? - This is one of the
“vexed passages” about which there has been much difference of
opinion. Gesenius renders it, “Do the companions (“i. e.” the
fishermen...
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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 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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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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SHALL THE COMPANIONS MAKE A BANQUET OF HIM, &C.— _Will the companies
of merchants drive a bargain for him? shall he be divided among the
merchants?_ Heath. Houbigant follows our translation: see the n...
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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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_SHALL THE COMPANIONS MAKE A BANQUET OF HIM? SHALL THEY PART HIM AMONG
THE MERCHANTS?_
Companions - rather, partners (namely, in fishing).
MAKE A BANQUET. The parallelism rather supports Umbreit, 'D...
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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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You can kill other river animals for their meat. But it is very
difficult to kill a crocodile. The crocodile is too fierce. And its
skin is too hard to cut with a sword or another long knife....
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SHALL THE COMPANIONS MAKE A BANQUET OF HIM? — Or, _Shall the bands
of fishermen make traffic of him?_ or, _dig a pit for him?_ — the
former suiting the parallelism better....
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_[Job 40:30]_ יִכְר֣וּ עָ֭לָיו חַבָּרִ֑ים
יֶ֝חֱצ֗וּהוּ בֵּ֣ין...
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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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_Body. Septuagint, "entrails are like brazen shields." Protestants, "
His scales are his pride shut up together, as with a close seal."
(Haydock)_...
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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, an...
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SHALL THY COMPANIONS MAKE A BANQUET OF HIM?.... The fishermen that
join together in catching fish, shall they make a feast for joy at
taking the leviathan? which suggests that he is not to be taken by...
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Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among
the merchants?
Ver. 6. _Shall the companions make a banquet of him?_] The Cetarii,
whale fishers, who usually go out in companies...
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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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Shall the companions make a banquet of him? That is, Do the members of
the fishermen's guild make him an object of trade and barter? SHALL
THEY PART HIM AMONG THE MERCHANTS? Can they divide him among...
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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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He is so fierce that fishermen and merchants do not attempt to capture
or kill him and market him commercially. His tough hide resists sharp
weapons....
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THY COMPANIONS; thy friends or assistants in the taking of him. MAKE A
BANQUET OF HIM, i.e. feed upon him. Or, _for him_, i.e. for joy that
thou hast taken him. SHALL THEY PART HIM AMONG THE MERCHANTS...
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Job 41:6 companions H2271 banquet H3739 (H8799) apportion H2673
(H8799) merchants H3669
Judges 14:11
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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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Judges 14:11...