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Verse Job 41:24. _HARD AS A PIECE OF THE NETHER_ MILLSTONE.] Which is
required to be harder than that which runs above....
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HIS HEART IS AS FIRM AS A STONE - As hard; as solid. Bochart remarks
that the word “heart” here is not to be regarded as denoting the
“courage” of the animal, as it sometimes does, but the heart
liter...
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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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His strength and hardness of muscle....
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Description of the parts of Leviathan....
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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...
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The second clause reads,
Yea, firm as the nether millstone.
Gen. "as hard as the nether millstone." The term "firm," lit. _cast_,
is repeated from the first clause (cf. Job 41:23). The nether
millst...
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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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_HIS HEART IS AS FIRM AS A STONE; YEA, AS HARD AS A PIECE OF THE
NETHER MILLSTONE._
Heart. 'In large beasts, which are less acute in feeling, there is
great firmness of the heart, and slower motion'...
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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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HIS HEART — _i.e._, his nature, his disposition. This seems to be
the meaning, rather than the physical organ of life....
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_[Job 41:16]_ לִ֭בֹּו יָצ֣וּק כְּמֹו
־אָ֑בֶן וְ֝...
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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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_Power. Hebrew and Septuagint, "none like him on earth," for bulk. ---
One. Septuagint, "made to be played with, or beaten, by my angels."
(Haydock)_...
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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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HIS HEART IS AS FIRM AS A STONE; YEA, AS HARD AS A PIECE OF THE NETHER
[MILLSTONE]. Which must be understood not of the substance but of the
qualities of it, being bold, courageous, undaunted, and unm...
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His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether
[millstone].
Ver. 24. _His heart is as firm as a stone_] He is _corpore et corde
validissimus._ Of the sword fish, Plutarch sait...
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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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His heart is as firm as a stone, molded into a solid piece, YEA, AS
HARD AS A PIECE OF THE NETHER MILLSTONE, which was always particularly
hard, in order to bear the movement of the grinding....
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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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HIS HEART; either,
1. That part of the body is most firm, and hard, and strong. Or,
2. His courage is invincible; he is void of fear for himself, and of
compassion to others, which is oft called _ha...
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Job 41:24 heart H3820 hard H3332 (H8803) stone H68 hard H3332 (H8803)
lower H6400 H8482
as hard -...
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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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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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Isaiah 48:4; Jeremiah 5:3; Zechariah 7:12...
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Nether mill — stone — Which being to bear the weight of the upper,
ought to be the harder and stronger of the two....