“ His scalesb are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. ”
His scales are his pride - Margin, “strong pieces of shields.” The literal translation of this would be, “Pride, the strong of shields;” that is, the strong shields. There can be no doubt that th...
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...
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. His scales are his pride - They are impenetrable, as we have already seen.
His scales are his pride— Strong scales cover his back. Heath.
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. Rather х 'ªpiyqeey ( H650 ) maaginiym ( H4043 )], his furrows of shields (as 'tubes' 'channels,' note, Job 40:18 ) ar...
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...
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...
(11) В¶ Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. (12) I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. (13) Who can discove...
[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 an...
Job 41:15 [His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal. Ver. 15. His scales are his pride ] They are like so many glistering shields, wherein he puts his confidence and...
His scales are his pride He prides and pleases himself in his strong and mighty scales. Hebrew, אפיקי מגנים, aphikee maginnim, robusta scutorum, the strength , or strong things, of his shields ar...
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...
11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. 12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. 13 Who can di...
He prides and pleaseth himself in his strong and mighty scales. Heb. His strong shields (i.e. scales) are his pride . Or, (as other, both ancient and modern, interpreters render it,) his body , (...
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
Jeremiah 9:23 ; Revelation 5:2 ; Revelation 5:3 ; Revelation 5:5
Shut — Closely compacted together, as things that are fastened together by a seal. This likewise is true of the crocodile, but the skin of the whale is smooth and entire without any scales at all.