John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:9
Behold, the hope of him is in vain ,.... Of getting the mastery over him, or of taking him; and yet both crocodiles and whales have been taken; nor is the taking of them to be despaired of; but it seems the "orca", or the whale with many teeth, has never been taken and killed F15 Vid. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 846. ; shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him ? the sight of a whale is terrible to mariners, lest their ships should be overturned by it; and some... 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