“ None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? ”
None is so fierce that dare stir him up - No one has courage to rouse and provoke him. Who then is able to stand before me? - The meaning of this is plain. It is, “If one of my creatures is s...
None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to (a) stand before me? (a) If no one dare stand against a whale, which is but a creature, who is able to compare with God the creator?
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...
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? None is so fierce that dare stir him up - The most courageous of men dare not provoke the crocodile to fight, or even a...
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? Fierce - courageous; foolhardy. If a man dare not attack one of my creatures ( Genesis 49:9 ; Numbers 24:9 ), wh...
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...
None is so fierce that dare stir him up. — “If, therefore, the creatures of My hand strike so much terror, how far more terrible must I be? If thou canst not save thyself from them, how much less c...
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...
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...
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...
(1) В¶ Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? (2) Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? (3) Will he make...
None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up ,.... This seems best to agree with the crocodile, who frequently lies down and sleeps on the ground q, and in the water by night r; see Ezekiel 29:3 ; whe...
None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? Ver. 10. None is so fierce that dare stir him up ] Unless he be ambitious of his own destruction; cruel (so the word...
Behold, the hope of him is in vain That is, the hope of taking, or conquering him. Shall not one be cast down, even at the sight of him? Not only the fight, but the sight of him is most frightful...
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...
Description of Leviathan. B. C. 1520. 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or hi...
That dare stir him up, when he sleepeth or is quiet. None dare provoke him to the battle. To stand before me; to contend with me his Creator, as thou, Job, dost, when one of my creatures is too h...
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 . 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...
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...
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's Weakness when Compared with the Strength of the Crocodile
1 Corinthians 10:22 ; Ezekiel 8:17 ; Ezekiel 8:18 ; Genesis 49:9 ; Jeremiah 12:5 ; Job 40:9 ; Job 9:4 ; Numbers 24:9 ; Psalms 2:11 ; Psalms 2:12
Stand — To the battle. Me — To contend with me who created him?