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Verse Job 41:30. _SHARP STONES_ ARE _UNDER HIM_] So hard and
impenetrable are his scales, that splinters of flint are the same to
him as the softest reeds....
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SHARP STONES ARE UNDER HIM - Margin, as in Hebrew, “pieces of pot
sherd.” The Hebrew word (חדוד _chaddûd_), means “sharp,
pointed”; and the phrase used here means “the sharp points of a
potsherd,” or...
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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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The impression left where he has lien.
Under him he hath sharp potsherds,
He spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
The scales of the belly, though smoother than those on the back, still
are s...
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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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SHARP STONES ARE UNDER HIM— _His nether parts are like sharp
potsherds. He dasheth himself on the mud like a threshing cart._
Heath. חרוצ _charutz,_ is rightly rendered by Bochart _tribula,_
an instru...
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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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_SHARP STONES ARE UNDER HIM: HE SPREADETH SHARP POINTED THINGS UPON
THE MIRE._
Sharp stones - rather, as margin, potsherds х_ CHADUWDEEY_ (H2303) _
CHAARES_ (H2789)]: i:e., the sharp and pointed scal...
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41:30 mire. (c-13) Or 'he spreadeth himself [on] sharp pointed things,
as on mire.'...
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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...
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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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_(_30_)_ HE SPREADETH SHARP POINTED THINGS UPON THE MIRE. — Some
render, “He spreadeth, as it were, a threshing-wain upon the
mire.” The statement is, that he not only can lie without
inconvenience up...
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_[Job 41:22]_ תַּ֭חְתָּיו חַדּ֣וּדֵי
חָ֑רֶשׂ יִרְפַּ֖ד חָר֣וּץ...
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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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Sharp stones (i) [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things
upon the mire.
(i) His skin is so hard that he lies with a great ease on the stones
as in the mud....
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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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SHARP STONES [ARE] UNDER HIM,.... And yet give him no pain nor
uneasiness;
HE SPREADETH SHARP POINTED THINGS UPON THE MIRE; and makes his bed of
them and lies upon them; as sharp stones, as before, s...
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Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon
the mire.
Ver. 30. _Sharp stones are under him_] Heb. Sharp pieces of the
potsherd, _Acumina testacea,_ which prick him no more th...
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_Sharp stones_ חדודי חרשׂ, _chadudee chares, acumina testæ_,
vel _testacea, sharp points of potsherds, are under him_ He can repose
himself on rocks, or stones, whose edges, or points, are sharp, like...
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Sharp stones are under him, the ventral part, or plastron, of his skin
consists of pointed shards, sharp scales; HE SPREADETH SHARP POINTED
THINGS UPON THE MIRE, the pointed scales of his plastron lea...
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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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SHARP STONES:
_ Heb._ Sharp pieces, of potsherd...
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According to this translation the sense is, his skin is so hard and
impenetrable, that the sharpest stones are as easy to him as the mire,
and make no more impression upon him. But the words are and m...
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Job 41:30 sharp H2303 potsherds H2789 spreads H7502 (H8799) pointed
H2742 mire H2916
Sharp stones - Heb. Sharp pieces of potsherd
he - So hard and impenetrable are his scale
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SHARP STONES
Hebrew, sharp pieces of potsherd....
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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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2 Samuel 22:43; Job 17:13; Proverbs 3:14; Proverbs 8:10; Psalms 18:42
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Stones — His skin is so impenetrable, that the sharpest stones or
shells are as easy unto him as the mire....