Job 41:30

_SHARP STONES ARE UNDER HIM: HE SPREADETH SHARP POINTED THINGS UPON THE MIRE._ Sharp stones - rather, as margin, potsherds х_ CHADUWDEEY_ (H2303) _ CHAARES_ (H2789)]: i:e., the sharp and pointed scales on the belly, like broken pieces of pottery. SHARP-POINTED THINGS - rather, a threshing instrument х_ CHAARUWTS_ (H2742)], but not on the fruits of the earth, but 'on the mire;' irony. When he lies on the mire he leaves the marks of his scales so imprinted on it that one might fancy a threshing instrument with its sharp teeth had been drawn over it (Isaiah 28:27)....

Verse Job 41:30. _SHARP STONES_ ARE _UNDER HIM_] So hard and impenetrable are his scales, that splinters of flint are the same to him as the softest reeds....

SHARP STONES ARE UNDER HIM - Margin, as in Hebrew, “pieces of pot sherd.” The Hebrew word (חדוד _chaddûd_), means “sharp, pointed”; and the phrase used here means “the sharp points of a potsherd,” or broken pieces of earthenware. The reference is, undoubtedly, to the scales of the animal, which were rough and pointed, like the broken pieces of earthenware. This description would not agree with the whale, and indeed will accord with no other animal so well as with the crocodile. The meaning is, that the under parts of his body, with which he rests upon the mire, are made up of sharp, pointed things, like broken pottery. HE SPREADETH SHARP POINTED THINGS UPON THE MIRE - That is, when he rests or stretches himself on the mud or slime of the bank of the river. The word used here and rendered “sharp pointed things” (חרוץ _chârûts_) means

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...

SHARP STONES [ARE] UNDER HIM,.... And yet give him no pain nor uneasiness; HE SPREADETH SHARP POINTED THINGS UPON THE MIRE; and makes his bed of them and lies upon them; as sharp stones, as before, shells of fishes, broken pieces of darts, arrows, and javelins thrown at him, which fall around him: this does not so well agree with the crocodile, the skin of whose belly is soft and thin; wherefore dolphins plunge under it and cut it with a thorn, as Pliny h relates, or with spiny fins i; but with the whale, which lies among hard rocks and sharp stones, and large cutting pieces of ice, as in the northern seas. h Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 25. i Sandys's Travels, l. 2. p. 78....

SHARP STONES Hebrew, sharp pieces of potsherd....

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

SHARP STONES ARE UNDER HIM— _His nether parts are like sharp potsherds. He dasheth himself on the mud like a threshing cart._ Heath. חרוצ _charutz,_ is rightly rendered by Bochart _tribula,_ an instrument used in threshing of corn, a kind of sledge, furnished with sharp iron wheels. This was drawn over the straw by oxen, and at the same time thrashed out the corn, and cut the straw into small pieces, reducing it to chaff. An instrument of this kind is still used in the east for the same purpose. See Parkhurst on the word, and _Observations,_ p. 142....