Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 41:34
He beholdeth (m) all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride.
(m) He despises all other beasts and monsters, and is the proudest of all others.
He beholdeth (m) all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride.
(m) He despises all other beasts and monsters, and is the proudest of all others.
Verse Job 41:34. _HE_ IS _A KING OVER ALL THE CHILDREN OF PRIDE._] There is no animal in the waters that does not fear and fly from him. Hence the _Chaldee_ renders it, _all the offspring of FISHES_....
HE BEHOLDETH ALL HIGH THINGS - That is, he looks down on everything as inferior to him. HE IS A KING OVER ALL THE CHILDREN OF PRIDE - Referring, by “the children of pride,” to the animals that are bol...
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...
CHILDREN OF PRIDE. sons of pride, or proud beasts....
_he beholdeth all high things_ Or, HE LOOKETH ON ALL THAT IS HIGH; he looks them boldly in the face without terror. _the children of pride_ That is, the proud beasts; comp. ch. Job 28:8....
He has no rival, he is king among the proud beasts....
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...
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 BEHOLDETH ALL HIGH THINGS: HE IS A KING OVER ALL THE CHILDREN OF PRIDE._ Beheldeth - as their superior. CHILDREN OF PRIDE - the proud and fierce beasts. So Job 28:8; Hebrew, sons of pride. To hu...
41:34 beasts. (e-13) As ch. 28.8....
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...
The meaning is probably, 'Everything that is high feareth him: He is king over all the sons of pride,' i.e. the other great beasts (Job 28:8). THE SPEECHES OF THE ALMIGHTY When the human debate was o...
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...
Some animals seem proud. And some people are very proud. But nobody can continue to be proud when they see a crocodile. Their proud words cannot protect them from such a dangerous animal. The devil i...
UPON EARTH THERE IS NOT HIS LIKE. — Some have proposed to take away the last two verses of Job 41 from their connection with the crocodile, and to transpose them, referring them to man, so as to come...
_[Job 41:26]_ אֵֽת ־כָּל ־גָּבֹ֥הַּ יִרְאֶ֑ה ה֝֗וּא...
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...
REFLECTIONS READER, among many special improvements to be made, under divine teaching, from this chapter, there are two very striking lessons, which I pray the LORD, the HOLY GHOST, to impress with hi...
(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 BEHOLDETH ALL HIGH [THINGS],.... Or "who beholdeth all high [things]"; even he that made leviathan, that is, God, as the above interpreter: he does that which Job was bid to do, and could not; beho...
He beholdeth all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride. Ver. 34. _He beholdeth all high things_] As far below him (be they never so excellent) both for bulk of body and stoutne...
_He beholdeth all high things_ He looks about him with contempt and disdain on every thing he sees. He does not turn his back upon, or hide his face from, the highest and mightiest creatures, but beho...
He beholdeth all high things, looking them boldly in the face, without the slightest flinching; HE IS A KING OVER ALL THE CHILDREN OF PRIDE, a tyrant and ruler even in the midst of animals who are fea...
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...
He doth not turn his back upon nor hide his face from the highest and proudest creatures, but looks upon them with a bold and undaunted countenance, as being without any fear of them, as was now said....
Job 41:34 beholds H7200 (H8799) high H1364 king H4428 children H1121 pride H7830 he is - Job 26:12;
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...
_Upon the earth there is not his like._ THE SUPREMACY OF LEVIATHAN The lion is often spoken of as “the king of the forest,” or the “king of beasts,” and in a similar sense the leviathan is here spoke...
_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,...
Exodus 5:2; Ezekiel 29:3; Isaiah 28:1; Job 26:12; Psalms 73:10;...
King, &c. — He can tame both the behemoth and leviathan, as strong and stout — hearted as they are. This discourse concerning them was brought in, to prove that it is God only, who can look upon proud...