By reason of breakings — i.e., the waves he makes in the water, or the breakings he makes among the plants and trees in the water.
They purify themselves — i.e., they are beside themselves; they are so overwhelmed with terror, that they take themselves off, as those who have to dwell apart for uncleanness.
Verse Job 41:25. _BY REASON OF BREAKINGS THEY PURIFY THEMSELVES._] No version, either ancient or modern, appears to have understood this verse; nor is its true sense known. The _Septuagint_ have, "Wh...
WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF - When he rouses himself for an attack or in self-defense. THE MIGHTY ARE AFRAID - The Vulgate renders this “anqels.” The meaning is, that he produces alarm on those who ar...
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...
BREAKINGS. terrors. PURIFY THEMSELVES. mistake their way; are bewildered; or, beside themselves....
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...
With his "firmness" of heart there naturally goes a corresponding courage and fierceness. _by reason of breakings_ Rather, BY REASON OF TERRORS THEY ARE BESIDE THEMSELVES; lit. _they lose themselves_...
WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF, &C.— _When he raiseth up himself, the mighty fly; the princes quit their purposed journey._ Houb. Heath renders the last clause; _for very terror they fall to the ground;_...
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...
_WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF, THE MIGHTY ARE AFRAID: BY REASON OF BREAKINGS THEY PURIFY THEMSELVES._ When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid. The crocodile: a type of the awe which the Creat...
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...
If the man was curious, he might see the crocodile. But if the man was sensible, he would run away. _THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES: PEOPLE TRY TO FRIGHTEN THE CROCODILE_ V26 A sword does not hurt a crocod...
_[Job 41:17]_ מִ֭ שֵּׂתֹו יָג֣וּרוּ אֵלִ֑ים מִ֝...
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 is king, &c. He is superior in strength to all that are great and strong amongst living creatures: mystically it is understood of the devil, who is king over all the proud. (Challoner) (St. Gregory...
(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...
_AN AWE-INSPIRING OBJECT_ ‘When He raiseth up Himself, the mighty are afraid.’ Job 41:25 Leviathan is almost certainly the crocodile, and there is the playfulness of a great tenderness in the sugge...
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...
WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF,.... Not out of the waters, but above the surface of them, so as that his large bulk, his terrible jaws and teeth, are seem; THE MIGHTY ARE AFRAID; not only fishes and othe...
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. Ver. 25. _When he raiselh up himself, the mighty are afraid_] When he shows himself like some moving...
_When he raiseth up himself_ Showing himself upon the top of the waters; _the mighty are afraid_ Even the stout-hearted, who used to be above fear. _By reason of breakings_ By reason of their great da...
When he raiseth up himself, with all this fierceness of his heart, THE MIGHTY ARE AFRAID; BY REASON OF BREAKINGS THEY PURIFY THEMSELVES, that is, they are so overcome with astonishment and terror that...
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...
WHEN HE RAISETH UP HIMSELF; showing himself upon the top of the waters. Or, _because of his height_, or _greatness_, or _majesty_; for he is represented as a king, JOB 41:31. _The mighty_; even the st...
Job 41:25 up H7613 mighty H352 afraid H1481 (H8799) crashings H7667 beside H2398 (H8691) by -...
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,...
Jonah 1:4; Psalms 107:28...
Raiseth — Upon the top of the waters. Mighty — Even the stout — hearted. Breakings — By reason of their great danger and distress; which is expressed by this very word, Psalms 60:2; Jonah 2:4. Purify...