Job 41:2

_CANST THOU PUT AN HOOK INTO HIS NOSE? OR BORE HIS JAW THROUGH WITH A THORN?_ Hook - rather, a rope of rushes х_ 'AGMOWN_ (H100)]. THORN - rather, a ring or hook х_ CHOWACH_ (H2336)]. So wild beasts were led about when caught (Isaiah 37:29; Ezekiel 29:4); fish also were secured thus, and thrown into the water, to keep them alive....

Verse Job 41:2. _CANST THOU PUT A HOOK ONTO HIS NOSE?_] Canst thou put a ring in his nose, and lead him about as thou dost thine ox? In the East they frequently lead thy oxen and buffaloes with a ring in their noses. So they do _bulls_ and _oxen_ in this country. _BORE HIS JAW THROUGH WITH A THORN?_] Some have thought that this means, Canst thou deal with him as with one of those little fish which thou stringest on a rush by means of the thorn at its end? Or perhaps it may refer to those _ornaments_ with which they sometimes adorned their horses, mules, camels, c....

CANST THOU PUT A HOOK INTO HIS NOSE - Or rather, a “rope,” or “cord.” The word used here (אגמון _'agmôn_) means “a caldron,” or “kettle” Job 41:20, also a reed, or bulrush, growing in marshy places, and thus a rope made of reeds, a rush-cord. The idea is, that he could not be led about by a cord, as tame animals may be. Mr. Vansittart, however, supposes that the words here are expressive of ornaments, and that the allusion is to the fact mentioned by Herodotus, that the crocodile was led about by the Egyptians as a divinity, and that in this state it was adorned with rings and various stately trappings. There can be no doubt that such a fact existed, but this does not accord well with the scope of the passage here. The object is to impress the mind of Job with a sense of the strength and untamableness of the animal, not to describe t

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...

CANST THOU PUT AN HOOK INTO HIS NOSE?.... Or a rush, that is, a rope made of rushes; for of such ropes were made, as Pliny g affirms; OR BORE HIS JAW THROUGH WITH A THORN? as men do herrings, or such like small fish, for the convenience of carrying them, or hanging them up to dry; the whale is not to be used in such a manner: but the Tentyritae, a people in Egypt, great enemies to crocodiles, had methods of taking thorn in nets, and of binding and bridling them, and carrying them as they pleased h. g Nat. Hist. l. 19. c. 2. h Strabo. Geograph. l. 17. p. 560. Aelian. de Animal. l. 10. c. 21. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 25....

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,...

HOOK. reed....

The impossibility of capturing the animal....

CANST THOU PUT AN HOOK INTO HIS NOSE?— _Canst thou put a bandage about his nose?_ Heath. The word אגמון _agmon,_ rendered _bandage_ signifies _a rope of rushes._ This was to tie his mouth fast, as _the thorn_ was to prevent his getting off the _bandage._ It is usual to this day, to fasten the jaws of the crocodile when taken....