Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 41:31
He lashes the water into foam. Like a pot of ointment] perhaps a reference to the strong musky smell of the crocodile.
He lashes the water into foam. Like a pot of ointment] perhaps a reference to the strong musky smell of the crocodile.
Verse Job 41:31. _HE MAKETH THE DEEP TO BOIL LIKE A POT_] This is occasioned by strongly agitating the waters at or near the bottom; and the froth which arises to the top from this agitation may have...
HE MAKETH THE DEEP TO BOIL LIKE A POT - In his rapid motion through it. The word “deep” (מצולה _m__e__tsôlâh_) may refer to any deep place - either of the sea, of a river, or of mire, Psalms 69:2. I...
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 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...
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...
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...
The commotion he raises in the deep. The second clause of the verse hardly refers to fermentation in the pot of ointment, but rather to the foaming mixture of ingredients....
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...
_HE MAKETH THE DEEP TO BOIL LIKE A POT: HE MAKETH THE SEA LIKE A POT OF OINTMENT._ He maketh the deep to boil like a pot - whenever he moves. SEA - the Nile (Isaiah 19:5; Nahum 3:8). POT OF OINTME...
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...
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...
THE SEA — _i.e._, not necessarily the salt water, for the Nile is still called the sea by the Arabs, and so with many other large rivers. Example, the “sea-wall” of the Thames below Gravesend....
_[Job 41:23]_ יַרְתִּ֣יחַ כַּ † סִּ֣יר מְצוּלָ֑ה...
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...
He maketh the deep to (k) boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. (k) Either he makes the sea to seem like it is boiling by his wallowing, or else he spouts water in such abundance...
(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...
HE MAKETH THE DEEP TO BOIL \K\ like a pot,.... Which is all in a from through the violent agitation and motion of the waves, caused by its tossing and tumbling about; which better suits with the whale...
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. Ver. 31. _He maketh the deep to boil like a pot_] He troubleth the whole ocean, he maketh a mighty commotion in the se...
_He maketh the deep_ The deep waters; _to boil like a pot _ To swell, and foam, and froth, by his strong and vehement motion, as any liquor does when it is boiled in a pot, especially boiling ointment...
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot, namely, by his threshings and slashings of the water; HE MAKETH THE SEA LIKE A POT OF OINTMENT, all frothy and foamy as a result of his tumbling and rushing in t...
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...
THE DEEP; the deep waters, or the sea, which is called _the deep_, PSALMS 107:24 JONAH 2:3, as it is explained in the next clause. TO BOIL LIKE A POT; to swell, and foam, and froth by his strong and v...
Job 41:31 deep H4688 boil H7570 (H8686) pot H5518 makes H7760 (H8799) sea H3220 ointment H4841...
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,...
1 Kings 7:45; 2 Chronicles 4:16; 2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 4:39; 2 Kin
Boil — To swell, and foam, and froth by his strong and vehement motion, as any liquor does when it is boiled in a pot, especially boiling ointment. The sea — The great river Nile, is called a sea, bot...