God now gives an up close and detailed description of the anatomy of this beast. He has limbs, is tremendously strong, and is covered in armor that cannot be penetrated. He has. ferocious mouth full of teeth, and his back is. layer of rows of shields that are tightly fitted together. The mention of the teeth may indicate that this animal is. meat-eater.
Verse Job 41:12. _I WILL NOT CONCEAL HIS PARTS_] This is most certainly no just translation of the original. The _Vulgate_ is to this effect: _I will not spare him_: nor yield to his _powerful words,_...
I WILL NOT CONCEAL HIS PARTS - This is the commencement of a more particular description of the animal than had been before given. In the previous part of the chapter, the remarks are general, speakin...
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 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...
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...
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...
I WILL NOT CONCEAL HIS PARTS, &C.— _I will not pass over in silence his limbs, nor any thing of his bravery, nor the gracefulness of his proportion._ Heath. _I will not on account of him hold silence,...
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...
_I WILL NOT CONCEAL HIS PARTS, NOR HIS POWER, NOR HIS COMELY PROPORTION._ I will not conceal. A resumption of the description broken off by the digression, which formed an agreeable change. HIS POWE...
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...
HIS PARTS] i.e. the crocodile's....
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...
We would not normally describe a crocodile as graceful. But perhaps God meant the skin of the crocodile. Today, crocodile skin makes an attractive leather....
_[Job 41:4]_ _לֹֽו_† ־אַחֲרִ֥ישׁ בַּדָּ֑יו וּ דְבַר...
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...
I will not conceal (c) his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. (c) The parts and members of the whale?...
_Breath, like bellows, ver. 10. (Menochius)_...
(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...
I WILL NOT CONCEAL HIS PARTS,.... The parts of the leviathan; or "his bars", the members of his body, which are like bars of iron: NOR HIS POWER; which is very great, whether of the crocodile or the...
I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. Ver. 12. _I will not conceal his parts, nor his power_] That therein, as in a picture of the most principal piece of my workman...
_I will not conceal his parts_ That is, I will particularly speak of them. Hebrew, בדיו, _bad-dav_, his bars, or the members of his body, which are strong like bars of iron. R. Levi interprets it of _...
I will not conceal his parts, He feels constrained to mention also his members, NOR HIS POWER, NOR HIS COMELY PROPORTION, his gracefulness in spite of his great size....
JOB'S WEAKNESS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE CROCODILE...
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...
i.e. I will particularly speak of them. Here is a meiosis, as there is JOB 14:11, JOB 15:18, and oft elsewhere. HIS PARTS, Heb. _His bars_, i.e. the members of his body, which are strong, like bars of...
Job 41:12 conceal H2790 (H8686) limbs H907 power H1369 H1697 graceful H2433 proportions H6187 comely -...
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,...
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