Job 41:13-21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 41:11-34

God, having in the Job 42:1-6 shown Job how unable he was to deal with the leviathan, here sets forth his own power in that massy mighty creature. Here is, I. God's sovereign dominion and independency laid down, Job 41:11. 1. That he is indebted to none of his creatures. If any pretend he is indebted to them, let them make their demand and prove their debt, and they shall receive it in full and not by composition: ?Who has prevented me?? that is, ?who has laid any obligations upon me by any... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:13

Who can discover the face of his garment ?.... Or rather uncover it? Not the sea, which Mr. Broughton represents as the garment of the whale; who can strip him of it, or take him out of that, and bring him to land? which, though not impossible, is difficult: but either the garment of his face, the large bulk or prominence that hangs over his eyes; or rather his skin. Who dare venture to take off his skin, or flay him alive? or take off the scaly coat of the crocodile, which is like a coat of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:14

Who can open the doors of his face ?.... Of his mouth, the jaws thereof, which are like a pair of folding doors: the jaws of a crocodile have a prodigious opening. Peter Martyr F21 Decad. 5. c. 9. speaks of one, whose jaws opened seven feet broad; and Leo Africanus F23 Descript. Africae, l. 9. p. 763. So Sandys's Travels, l. 2. p. 78. Edit. 5. affirms he saw some, whose jaws, when opened, would hold a whole cow. To the wideness of the jaws of this creature Martial F24 ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:15

His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. This is notoriously true of the crocodile, whose back and tail are covered with scales, which are in a measure impenetrable and invincible: which all writers concerning it, and travellers that have seen it, agree in; See Gill on Ezekiel 29:4 ; but the skin of the whale is smooth; the outward skin is thin, like parchment, and is easily pulled off with the hand; and its under skin, though an inch thick, is never stiff nor... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:16

One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. This shows that it cannot be understood of the skin of the whale, and the hardness and strength of that, which is alike and of a piece; whereas those scales, or be they what they may, though closely joined, yet are distinct: those who interpret this of whales that have teeth, and these of the teeth, observe, that as they have teeth to the number of forty or fifty in the lower jaw, in the upper one fire holes or sockets into which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:17

They are joined one to another ,.... One scale to another, or "a man in his brother" F8 איש באחיהו "vir in fratre suo"; Montanus. : which may seem to favour the notion of the whale's teeth in the sockets, which exactly answer to one another; but the next clause will by no means agree with them; they stick together, that they cannot be sundered : whereas they easily be, at least by the creature itself; but the scales of a crocodile are so closely joined and sealed together, that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:18

By his neesings a light doth shine ,.... The philosopher F9 Problem. s. 33. qu. 4. observes, that those who look to the sun are more apt to sneeze: and it is taken notice of by various writers F11 Aelian. l. 3. c. 11. Leo African. Descriptio African, l. 9. p. 761. Pet. Martyr. Decad. 3. c. 4. , that the crocodile delights to be sunning itself, and lying yawning in the sun and looking at it, as quoted by Bochart; and so frequently sneeze: which sneezings, through the rays of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:19

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. Which, though hyperbolical expressions, have some foundation for them in the latter; in the vast quantities of water thrown out by the whale, through its mouth or hole in its frontispiece, which in the sun may look like lamps and sparks of fire, as before observed; and especially in the "orcae", or whales with teeth, which eject in the same way an oily mucus, or the fat liquor of the brain, commonly called spermaceti, which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:20

Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. In which flesh or anything else is boiling. It is observed that there is a likeness between the crocodile and the river horse, and particularly in their breathing F21 Plin. l. 48. c. 8. Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 8. c. 2. : and of the former it is remarked F23 Achilles Statius & Eustathius, apud Scheuchzer: ut supra. (vol. 4. p. 849.) , that its nostrils are very large and open, and that they breathe... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:21

His breath kindles coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. Hyperbolical expressions, which the above observations may seem to justify. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 41:11-34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 41:21

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