Job 41:2

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 41:1-34

NotesJob 41:1. “Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a hook.” The term “Leviathan” (לִוְיָתָן) rendered here by the SEPTUAGINT, SYRIAC, and ARABIC, “the dragon.” The VULGATE and TARGUM leave it untranslated. Almost all the earlier interpreters understood the Whale to be the animal intended. BEZA and DIODATPS among the first to incline for the Crocodile. GROTIUS remarks: “From terrestrial he passes to marine animals.” SANCTIUS is uncertain which animal of the whale kind is meant; and observes that... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 41:1-34

Chapter 41And then in the next chapter God speaks of the leviathan. Now just what the leviathan is, they're not quite sure. Some think that it is perhaps a crocodile, some think that it's perhaps even a dragon, while others think that it perhaps is a hippopotamus with a hefty hide. And so those are some of the opinions. And God said, "Can you catch him with a hook like you catch a fish?"Can you put a hook in his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? Will he pray to you? and speak soft... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 41:1-34

Job 41:1 . Canst thou draw out leviathan? This word is rendered by the LXX, “dragon.” It occurs in Isaiah 27:1, and is rendered whale, dragon, and serpent. Men are now satisfied that it is not the whale but the crocodile to which this description exactly refers. The harpooners can easily pierce a whale, as is denied of leviathan; the flesh of the whale is soft, but that of the crocodile is hard. Men never sling stones at the whale; but these have been tried in vain against the dragon.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 41:1-34

Job 41:1-34Canst thou draw out Leviathan? Behemoth and leviathanThe description of the “behemoth” in the preceding chapter and the “leviathan” here suggests a few moral reflections.I. The prodigality of created might. With what amazing force are these creatures endowed! How huge their proportions! How exuberant their vital energy!II. The restraining power of the Divine government. What keeps those creatures in cheek? They are under the spell of the Almighty. To all creatures the Creator has set... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 41:2

Job 41:2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? Ver. 2. Canst thou put a hook into his nose? ] Canst thou ring him like a swine, or rule him like a bear? God can, and did Sennacherib that crooked leviathan, Isaiah 27:1 ; Isaiah 37:29 ; and doth still the Great Turk, who desireth to devour Christendom. Or bore his jaw through with a thorn? ] Or twig, as men do lesser fishes, taken with an angle, or herrings from the fish market. These are facetious and... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 41:2

Isaiah 27:1, Isaiah 37:29, Ezekiel 29:4, Ezekiel 29:5 Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:28 - I will put Job 40:24 - General read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 41:2

Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?Thorn — Or, with an iron hook, or instrument as sharp as a thorn; wherewith thou usest to carry little fishes. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 41:2

2. A hook Hebrew, agmon, rush, cord, or reed. (Note, Job 40:21.) Wilkinson (iii, 6) says of the ancient Egyptians, they passed the stalk of a rush through the gills, and thus attached the fish together, in order the more conveniently to carry them home. Nose The second word rendered nose is lehi, jaw bone or jaw. Thorn Hhoahh, either a hook or a thorn. These four questions imply that the huge monster here described was taken with great difficulty at the time the scenes of... read more