John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:8
Lay thine hand upon him ,.... If thou canst or darest. It is dangerous so to do, either to the whale or crocodile; remember the battle ; or "look for war", as Mr. Broughton renders it; expect a fight will ensue, in which thou wilt have no share with this creature: do no more ; if thou canst by any means escape, take care never to do the like again; or thou wilt never do so any more, thou wilt certainly die for it. read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 41:1-10
Whether this leviathan be a whale or a crocodile is a great dispute among the learned, which I will not undertake to determine; some of the particulars agree more easily to the one, others to the other; both are very strong and fierce, and the power of the Creator appears in them. The ingenious Sir Richard Blackmore, though he admits the more received opinion concerning the behemoth, that it must be meant of the elephant, yet agrees with the learned Bochart's notion of the leviathan, that it... read more