Job 41:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Canst thou draw out leviathana with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? ”

Job 41:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Canst thou draw out - As a fish is drawn out of the water. The usual method by which fish were taken was with a hook; and the meaning here is, that it was not possible to take the leviathan in th...
Job 41:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Canst thou draw out (l) leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down? (l) Meaning the whale.
Job 41:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 41. Leviathan. The author regards the crocodile as impossible of capture. In Job 41:1 b perhaps the meaning is that when caught the crocodile cannot be led about by a rope round his tongue an...
Job 41:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Canst thou... ? Note the Figure of speech Erotesis (App-6) throughout this chapter. leviathan : probably the crocodile.
Job 41:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou draw out leviathan - We come now to a subject not less perplexing than that over which we h...
Job 41:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

God's great power in the Leviathan. Before Christ 1645. Job 41:1 . Canst thou draw out Leviathan — לויתן leviathan, is derived from לוה lavah, coupled, and תן ten, a dragon, i.e. a...
Job 41:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Leviathan - Latin, the twisted animal, gathering itself in folds. The last syllable, than, apper...
Job 41:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Second Speech of the Almighty (concluded) The second great creature, the Crocodile (with which the 'leviathan' is generally identified) is now described. If Job cannot control the crocodile, d...
Job 41:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

XLI. (1) Leviathan. — There can be little doubt that by this is meant the crocodile or alligator, whatever may be the true meaning of behemoth. Or his tongue... — Some render, “or press down...
Job 41:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job make...
Job 41:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Parable of the Crocodile Job 41:1-34 The last paragraph described the hippopotamus; the whole of this chapter is devoted to the crocodile. In a series of striking questions the voice of the...
Job 41:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Leviathan is almost certainly the crocodile, and there is the playfulness of a great tenderness in the suggestions Jehovah makes to Job about these fierce creations. Can Job catch him with a rope or...
Job 41:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS The Lord is still the speaker, through the whole of this chapter. Having before given an instance of the sovereignty of his power, in the creation and government of the largest of land crea...
Job 41:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
Job 41:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down? Ver. 1. Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? ] As men use to do the lesser fishes in angling...
Job 41:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? It is a great question among learned men, what creature is meant by לויתן, leviathan. Our translators were evidently uncertain respecting it, and theref...
Job 41:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

LEVIATHAN (vv.1-34) Leviathan was a water creature, and appears to be the crocodile, the most fearsome of all aquatic beasts, unless it was another similar animal, now extinct. Job could use a h...
Job 41:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Description of Leviathan. B. C. 1520. 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or hi...
Job 41:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

JOB CHAPTER 41 God's kingly power and authority above all the children of pride seen in the leviathan. Canst thou take him with a hook and a line, as anglers take ordinary fishes? Surely no. Quest...
Job 41:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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

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 n...
Job 41:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Canst thou draw out Leviathan? Behemoth and leviathan The description of the “behemoth” in the preceding chapter and the “leviathan” here suggests a few moral reflections. I. The prodigality...
Job 41:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 41:1-18 The crowning description of a natural marvel—the "leviathan," or crocodile—is now given, and with an elaboration to which there is no parallel in the rest of Scriptur...
Job 41:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Canst thou draw out leviathan, the great and fierce crocodile of Egypt and other Mediterranean countries, with an hook, or purse-net, or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Rather, "I...
Job 41:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 27:1 ; Job 3:8 ; Psalms 104:26 ; Psalms 74:14
Job 41:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Leviathan — Several particulars in the following description, agree far better with the crocodile, than the whale. It is highly probable, that this is the creature here spoken of. Cord — Canst thou...

Job 41:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 41:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 41:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 41:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 41:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 41:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 41:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 41:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 41:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 41:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 41:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 41:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 41:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 41:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 41:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 41:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 41:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 41:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 41:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 41:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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

Job 41:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 41:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 41:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 41:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 41:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes