Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 41:18
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning — i.e., fiery red and glowing.
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning — i.e., fiery red and glowing.
Verse Job 41:18. _BY HIS NEESINGS A LIGHT DOTH SHINE_] It is very likely that this may be taken _literally_. When he spurts up the water out of his nostrils, the drops form a sort of _iris_ or _rainb...
BY HIS NEESINGS A LIGHT DOTH SHINE - The word rendered “neesings” means properly sneezing, and the literal sense here would be, “His sneezings, light shines.” Coverdale renders it, “His nesinge is lik...
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...
NEESINGS. Obsolete for sneezings. From A. S. _fneosan._ Chaucer spells it _fnesen._...
The monster breathes smoke and flame....
The animal is said to inflate itself, as it lies basking in the sun, and then force the heated breath through its nostrils, which in the sun appears like a stream of light. _the eyelids of the mornin...
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...
BY HIS NEESINGS A LIGHT DOTH SHINE— Literally, _His sneezings cause the light to sparkle._ The next clause gives as great an image of the thing it would express, says Dr. Young, as can enter the thoug...
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...
_BY HIS NEESINGS A LIGHT DOTH SHINE, AND HIS EYES ARE LIKE THE EYELIDS OF THE MORNING._ His neesings, х_ `ªTIYSHAAH_ (H5846)]. Translate, 'his sneezing causeth a light to shine.' Amphibious animals,...
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...
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...
These verses are difficult to understand. In the EasyEnglish translation, we have put some words in brackets (…). These words are not in the original Book of Job. We have included these words to help...
_[Job 41:10]_ עֲֽ֭טִישֹׁתָיו תָּ֣הֶל אֹ֑ור וְ֝ עֵינָ֗יו...
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...
By his neesings (g) a light doth shine, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning. (g) That is, casts out flames of fire....
(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...
BY HIS NEESINGS A LIGHT DOTH SHINE,.... The philosopher i observes, that those who look to the sun are more apt to sneeze: and it is taken notice of by various writers k, that the crocodile delights t...
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning. Ver. 18. _By his neesings a light doth shine_] When this dreadful monster sneezeth, or snorteth, fire breaketh...
_By his neesings a light doth shine_ Literally, _His sneezing causes the light to sparkle._ If he sneeze, or spout up water, it is like a light shining, either with the froth, or the light of the sun...
By his neesings, when he blows out his breath, together with water and slime, through his nostrils, A LIGHT DOTH SHINE, it seems like a flash of light, AND HIS EYES ARE LIKE THE EYELIDS OF THE MORNING...
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...
Did leviathan actually breathe fire? Some see this as. poetic description of the blast of steam that comes forth from this creature as he emerges from beneath the water. This section of Scripture does...
BY HIS NEESINGS; which may be understood either, 1. Of any commotion or agitation of the body, like that which is in neezing, as when the whale stirreth himself and casteth or shooteth up great spout...
Job 41:18 sneezings H5846 forth H1984 (H8686) light H216 eyes H5869 eyelids H6079 morning H7837 the eyelids -...
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,...
Job 3:9; Revelation 1:14...
Sneesings — This the crocodile is said frequently to do. Eyes — To which they seem very fitly compared, because the eyes of the crocodile are dull and dark under the water, but as soon as they appear...