Job 41:12

_I WILL NOT CONCEAL HIS PARTS, NOR HIS POWER, NOR HIS COMELY PROPORTION._ I will not conceal. A resumption of the description broken off by the digression, which formed an agreeable change. HIS POWER - literally, the word or way; i:e., true proportion or expression х_ DªBAR_ (H1697)] of his strength (so Hebrew, Deuteronomy 19:4). COMELY PROPORTION - literally, the comeliness of his structure (his apparatus, accoutrement; so "suit of apparel" х_ CHIYN_ (H2433) _ `EERUK_ (H6186)], Judges 17:10). (Maurer.) Umbreit translates, 'beauty of his armour.' But that follows after....

Verse Job 41:12. _I WILL NOT CONCEAL HIS PARTS_] This is most certainly no just translation of the original. The _Vulgate_ is to this effect: _I will not spare him_: nor yield to his _powerful words,_ _framed for the purpose of entreaty_. Mr. _Good_ applies it to leviathan: - "I cannot be confounded at his limbs and violence; The strength and structure of his frame." The Creator cannot be intimidated at the most formidable of his own works: _man_ may and should tremble; GOD cannot....

I WILL NOT CONCEAL HIS PARTS - This is the commencement of a more particular description of the animal than had been before given. In the previous part of the chapter, the remarks are general, speaking of it merely as one of great power, and not to be taken by any of the ordinary methods. A description follows of the various parts of the animal, all tending to confirm this general impression, and to fill the hearer with a deep conviction of his formidable character. The words rendered, “I will not conceal,” mean, “I will not be silent;” that is, he would speak of them. The description which follows of the “parts” of the animal refers particularly to his mouth, his teeth, his scales, his eyelids, his nostrils, his neck, and his heart. NOR HIS COMELY PROPORTION - The crocodile is not an object of beauty, and the animal described here is not spoken of as one of beauty, but as one of great p...

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...

I WILL NOT CONCEAL HIS PARTS,.... The parts of the leviathan; or "his bars", the members of his body, which are like bars of iron: NOR HIS POWER; which is very great, whether of the crocodile or the whale: NOR HIS COMELY PROPORTION; the symmetry of his body, and the members of it; which, though large, every part is in just proportion to each other....

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,...

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

I WILL NOT CONCEAL HIS PARTS, &C.— _I will not pass over in silence his limbs, nor any thing of his bravery, nor the gracefulness of his proportion._ Heath. _I will not on account of him hold silence, I will declare his fortitude, and the strength of his nerves._ Houb....

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 many supplications unto thee? Or will he speak soft words unto thee? 4 Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever? 5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? 6 Will the bands _of fishermen_ make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants? 7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears? 8 Lay thy hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no more. 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him? 10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me? 11 Who hath firs