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CHAPTER XLI
_God's great power in the leviathan, of which creature he gives_
_a very circumstantial description_, 1-34.
NOTES ON CHAP. XLI
Verse Job 41:1. _CANST THOU DRAW OUT LEVIATHAN_] We come...
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CANST THOU DRAW OUT - As a fish is drawn out of the water. The usual
method by which fish were taken was with a hook; and the meaning here
is, that it was not possible to take the leviathan in this ma...
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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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CANST THOU... ? Note the Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6)
throughout this chapter.
LEVIATHAN _ :_ probably the crocodile....
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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 impossibility of capturing the animal....
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The second clause appears to mean,
Wilt thou press down his tongue with a cord?
The "cord" may be that of the hook; when the hook is swallowed and the
cord drawn tightly, it presses down the tongue....
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_GOD'S GREAT POWER IN THE LEVIATHAN._
_Before Christ 1645._
_JOB 41:1. CANST THOU DRAW OUT LEVIATHAN_— לויתן _leviathan, is
derived from_ לוה _lavah, coupled,_ and תן _ten, a dragon, i.e. a
large se...
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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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_CANST THOU DRAW OUT LEVIATHAN WITH AN HOOK? OR HIS TONGUE WITH A CORD
WHICH THOU LETTEST DOWN?_
Leviathan - Latin, the twisted animal, gathering itself in folds. The
last syllable, than, appertains...
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41:1 leviathan (e-6) The crocodile, it would seem, as ch. 3.8. cord?
(f-17) Or 'and his tongue, with a cord which thou wilt sink?'...
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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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At the end of God’s speech, God described another strong animal. We
think that God was describing a dangerous animal called the crocodile.
The crocodile lives in rivers. But it can also walk on the la...
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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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XLI.
(1) LEVIATHAN. — There can be little doubt that by this is meant the
crocodile or alligator, whatever may be the true meaning of behemoth.
OR HIS TONGUE... — Some render, “or press down his ton...
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_[Job 40:25]_ תִּמְשֹׁ֣ךְ לִוְיָתָ֣ן בְּ
חַכָּ֑ה וּ֝...
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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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Canst thou draw out (l) leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a
cord [which] thou lettest down?
(l) Meaning the whale....
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I. Hebrew, "None is so fierce that dare stir it up." (Haydock) ---
Cruel, or rash, like those to Tentyra, chap. iii. 8. (Calmet) --- This
monster is terrible to those that flee, while it retires from...
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CONTENTS
The Lord is still the speaker, through the whole of this chapter.
Having before given an instance of the sovereignty of his power, in
the creation and government of the largest of land creat...
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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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CANST THOU DRAW OUT LEVIATHAN WITH AN HOOK?.... That is, draw it out
of the sea or river as anglers draw out smaller fishes with a line or
hook? the question suggests it cannot be done; whether by the...
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Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord
[which] thou lettest down?
Ver. 1. _Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?_] As men use to
do the lesser fishes in angling?...
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_Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook?_ It is a great question
among learned men, what creature is meant by לויתן, _leviathan._
Our translators were evidently uncertain respecting it, and therefo...
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JOB'S WEAKNESS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE CROCODILE...
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Canst thou draw out leviathan, the great and fierce crocodile of Egypt
and other Mediterranean countries, WITH AN HOOK, or purse-net, OR HIS
TONGUE WITH A CORD WHICH THOU LETTEST DOWN? Rather, "Into t...
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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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LEVIATHAN:
That is, a whale or a whirlpool
WHICH THOU LETTEST DOWN?:
_ Heb._ which thou drownest...
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This is. creature that can neither be hooked nor roped. Herodotus says
that the Egyptians tamed the crocodile, but if this is. description of
the crocodile, God may be speaking about. more ancient and...
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JOB CHAPTER 41 God's kingly power and authority above all the children
of pride seen in the leviathan. Canst thou take him with a hook and a
line, as anglers take ordinary fishes? Surely no. QUEST. Wh...
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Job 41:1 out H4900 (H8799) Leviathan H3882 hook H2443 tongue H3956
line H2256 lower H8257 (H8686)...
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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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Isaiah 27:1; Job 3:8; Psalms 104:26; Psalms 74:14...
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Leviathan — Several particulars in the following description, agree
far better with the crocodile, than the whale. It is highly probable,
that this is the creature here spoken of. Cord — Canst thou ta...
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Does this passage make reference to the mythological figure Leviathan?
PROBLEM: Job 41:1 makes reference to the mythological figure
Leviathan. But, how can the Bible talk about Leviathan as if it wer...