Job 41:32

_HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM; ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP TO BE HOARY._ Path - the foam on his track. HOARY - as the hair of the aged....

Verse Job 41:32. _HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM_] In certain states of the weather a rapid motion through the water disengages many sparks of phosphoric fire. I have seen this at sea; once particularly, on a fine clear night, with a good breeze, in a fast-sailing vessel, I leaned over the stern, and watched this phenomenon for hours. The _wake_ of the vessel was like a stream of fire; millions of particles of fire were disengaged by the ship's swift motion through the water, nearly in the same way as by the electric cushion and cylinder; and all continued to be absorbed at a short distance from the vessel. Whether this phenomenon takes place in _fresh water_ or in the _Nile_, I have had no opportunity of observing. _THE DEEP_ TO BE _HOARY._] By the _frost_ and _foam_ raised by the rapid passage of the animal throu

HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM - This refers doubtless to the white foam of the waters through which he passes. If this were spoken of some monster that commonly resides in the ocean, it would not be unnatural to suppose that it refers to the phosphoric light such as is observed when the waters are agitated, or when a vessel passes rapidly through them. If it refers, however, to the crocodile, the allusion must be understood of the hoary appearance of the Nile or the lake where he is found. ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP TO BE HOARY - Homer often speaks of the sea as πολιὴν θάλασσαν _poliēn_ _thalassan_ - “the hoary sea.” So Apollonius, speaking of the Argonauts, Lib. i. 545: - μακραὶ δ ̓ αἰὲν ἐλευκαίνοντο κέλευθοι -...

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...

HE MAKETH A PATH TO SHINE AFTER HIM,.... Upon the sea, by raising a white from upon it, through its vehement motion as it passes along, or by the spermaceti it casts out and leaves behind it. It is said s that whales will cut and plough the sea in such a manner, as to leave a shining glittering path behind them, the length of a German mile, which is three of ours; [ONE] WOULD THINK THE DEEP [TO BE] HOARY; to be old and grey headed, or white like the hair of the head of an old man, a figure often used of the sea by poets t; and hence "Nereus" u, which is the sea, is said to be an old man, because the froth in the waves of it looks like white hair. s Vid. Scheuchzer. ibid. (vol. 4.) p. 853. t πολιης αλος, Homer. Iliad. 1. v. 350. πολιης θαλασσης, Iliad. 4. v. 248. "incanuit unda", Catullus. u Phurnutus de Natura Deorum, p. 63....

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

ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP TO BE HOARY— _He accounteth the deep as his habitation._ Heath. Houbigant renders the verse, _He leaves behind him a shining path; he esteems the deep to be dry land.—Rutilantia post se vestigia relinquit; abyssum reputat ut aridum tellurem._...

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