Job 41:11

_WHO HATH PREVENTED ME, THAT I SHOULD REPAY HIM? WHATSOEVER IS UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN IS MINE._ Prevented - done me a favour first: anticipated me with service (Psalms 21:3). None can call me to account ("stand before me," Job 41:10) as unjust, because I have withdrawn favours from him (as in Job's case) which I was not in the least bound to give: for none has laid me under a prior obligation by conferring on me something which was not already my own. What can man give to Him who possesses all, including man himself? Man cannot constrain the creature to be his "servant" (Job 41:4) much less the Creator....

Verse Job 41:11. _WHO HATH PREVENTED ME_] Who is it that hath laid me under obligation to him? Do I need my creatures? All under the heavens is my property....

WHO HATH PREVENTED ME? - As this verse is here rendered, its meaning, and the reason why it is introduced, are not very apparent. It almost looks, indeed, as if it were an interpolation, or had been introduced from some other place, and torn from its proper connection. Dr. Harris proposes to remove the principal difficulty by translating it, “Who will stand before me, yea, presumptuously? Whatsoever is beneath the whole heaven is mine. I cannot be confounded at his limbs and violence, Nor at his power, or the strength of his frame.” It may be doubted, however, whether the original will admit of this translation. Rosenmuller, Umbreit, and Noyes, unite in supposing the meaning to be,

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, however, a fit climax to the gradually more and more elaborate descriptions of Job 38:39-18; Job 39:1; and Job 40:15. JOB 41:1 CANST THOU DRAW OUT LEVIATHAN WITH AN HOOK? The word _leviathan_,_ _or more properly _livyathan_,_ _which has previously occurred in...

WHO HATH PREVENTED ME, THAT ONE SHOULD REPAY [HIM]?.... First given me something that was not my own, and so laid me under an obligation to him to make a return. The apostle seems to have respect to this passage, Romans 11:35; [WHATSOEVER IS] UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN IS MINE; the fowls of the air, the cattle on a thousand hills, the fulness of the earth; gold, silver: precious stones, c. All things are made by him, are his property and at his dispose and therefore no man on earth can give him what he has not a prior right unto; see Psalms 24:1....

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 41:1. The leviathan has generally been identified with the crocodile. Like the behemoth, the leviathan is a strong and untamable beast. Jehovah asks, Canst thou draw up leviathan with a hook? Canst thou pierce his jaw with a reed? Will he make a covenant with thee? Wilt thou take him for a servant forever? Then He declares that he is fierce, and even at the sight of him one is cast down. And if a creature is so mighty and strong what must the One be who called this creature into existen

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 lower jaw. In Job 41:8 Remember the battle seems to mean, Bethink thee of the struggle involved. We have already noted that Duhm places Job 41:9 after Job 39:24. In Job 41:10 b me is of course God, but Targ, and some MSS. read him so _mg.)._ Whatever we do with Job 41:9 f. the following verses,...

PREVENTED. anticipated. IS. that is....

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 presumption of a mortal man desiring to contend with the Almighty. The display from Creation of that which God is had the desired effect on Job's mind: he is abased, and will no more contend with the Almighty. But Job had not only presumed to contend with God, he had charged Him with unrighteousness in His rule of the world and in His treatment of himself. This is the point to which the second speech from the storm is directed. The passage has properly two parts. First, Job 40:6, as Job had challenged the rectitude of God's rul

WHO HATH PREVENTED ME— _Who hath made me any present, that I may requite him?_ Heath. See Micah 6:6....