Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 41:1-34
Two beasts (40:15-41:34)Before Job accepts the challenge to govern the moral order, God warns him that it is far more difficult than governing the natural and physical order. Therefore, Job must first consider what power he has over, for instance, the beasts. Two examples are sufficient to impress upon Job that he faces an impossibility. The first of these is the monster Behemoth, generally thought to be the hippopotamus. It is among the strongest creatures of God’s creation (15-18),... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 41:27-28
Job 41:27-28. He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood He neither fears, nor feels, the blows of the one more than of the other. The arrow cannot make him flee Hebrew, the son of the bow, as it is elsewhere called, the son of the quiver, Lamentations 3:13; the quiver being, as it were, the mother, or womb, that bears it, and the bow as the father that begets it, or sendeth it forth. Sling-stones Great stones cast out of slings, which have a great force and efficacy, 2... read more