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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Job 41:31

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 the appearance of ointment. But several travellers say that the crocodile has a very strong scent of musk, and that he even imparts this smell to the water through which he passes, and therefore the text may be taken literally. This property of the crocodile has been noticed by several writers.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Description of the parts of Leviathan....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    He lashes the water into foam. LIKE A POT OF OINTMENT] perhaps a reference to the strong musky smell of the crocodile....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Job 41:23]_ יַרְתִּ֣יחַ כַּ † סִּ֣יר מְצוּלָ֑ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB'S WEAKNESS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE CROCODILE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 41:31 deep H4688 boil H7570 (H8686) pot H5518 makes H7760 (H8799) sea H3220 ointment H4841...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 7:45; 2 Chronicles 4:16; 2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 4:39; 2 Kin

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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