Job 41:1-4 BSB

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:1

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook ?.... That is, draw it out of the sea or river as anglers draw out smaller fishes with a line or hook? the question suggests it cannot be done; whether by the "leviathan" is meant the whale, which was the most generally received notion; or the crocodile, as Bochart, who has been followed by many; or the "orca", a large fish of the whale kind with many teeth, as Hasaeus, it is not easy to say "Leviathan" is a compound word of than the first syllable... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:2

Canst thou put an hook into his nose ?.... Or a rush, that is, a rope made of rushes; for of such ropes were made, as Pliny F7 Nat. Hist. l. 19. c. 2. affirms; or bore his jaw through with a thorn ? as men do herrings, or such like small fish, for the convenience of carrying them, or hanging them up to dry; the whale is not to be used in such a manner: but the Tentyritae, a people in Egypt, great enemies to crocodiles, had methods of taking thorn in nets, and of binding and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:3

Will he make many supplications unto thee ?.... To cease pursuing him, or to let him go when taken, or to use him well and not take away his life; no, he is too spirited and stouthearted to ask any favour, it is below him; will he speak soft words unto thee ? smooth and flattering ones, for the above purposes? he will not: this is a figurative way of speaking. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:4

Will he make a covenant with thee ?.... To live in friendship or servitude, as follows; wilt thou take him for a servant for ever ? oblige him to serve thee for life, or reduce him to perpetual bondage; signifying, that he is not to be tamed or brought into subjection; which is true of the whale, but not of the crocodile; for several authors F9 Herodot, ut supra, (Euterpe, sive, l. 2.) c. 69. Aelian. l. 8. c. 2. & l. 10. c. 21. Solin. c. 45. Plin. l. 8. c. 46. speak of them as... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 41:1

Canst thou draw out leviathan - We come now to a subject not less perplexing than that over which we have passed, and a subject on which learned men are less agreed than on the preceding. What is leviathan? The Hebrew word לויתן livyathan is retained by the Vulgate and the Chaldee. The Septuagint have, Αξεις δε δρακοντα ; "Canst thou draw out the Dragon?" The Syriac and Arabic have the same. A species of whale has been supposed to be the creature in question; but the description suits... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 41:2

Canst thou put a hook onto his nose? - Canst thou put a ring in his nose, and lead him about as thou dost thine ox? In the East they frequently lead thy oxen and buffaloes with a ring in their noses. So they do bulls and oxen in this country. Bore his jaw through with a thorn? - Some have thought that this means, Canst thou deal with him as with one of those little fish which thou stringest on a rush by means of the thorn at its end? Or perhaps it may refer to those ornaments with which... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 41:3

Will he make many supplications - There are several allusions in these verses to matters of which we know nothing. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 41:4

Will he make a covenant - Canst thou hire him as thou wouldst a servant, who is to be so attached to thy family as to have his ear bored, that he may abide in thy house for ever? Is not this an allusion to the law, Exodus 21:1-6 ;? read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 41:1

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? The word leviathan , or more properly livyathan , which has previously occurred in Job 3:8 , and is found also in Psalms 74:14 ; Psalms 104:26 ; and Isaiah 27:1 , seems to be derived from לוי , "twisting," and תן , "a monster," whence the תּנּין or תּנּים of the Pentateuch and also of Job ( Job 7:12 ), Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 9:11 ), and Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 29:3 ). It is thus a descriptive epithet rather than a name, and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 41:1-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 41:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 41:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 41:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 41:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 41:1

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