Job 41:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. ”

• Job 41:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  By his neesings a light doth shine - The word rendered “neesings” means properly sneezing, and the literal sense here would be, “His sneezings, light shines.” Coverdale renders it, “His nesinge i...

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• Job 41:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  By his neesings (g) a light doth shine, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning. (g) That is, casts out flames of fire.

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• Job 41:18 - 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...

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• Job 41:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  neesings. Obsolete for sneezings. From A. S. fneosan. Chaucer spells it fnesen.

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• Job 41:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. By his neesings a light doth shine - It is very likely that this may be taken literally. When he spurts up the...

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• Job 41:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  By his neesings a light doth shine— Literally, His sneezings cause the light to sparkle. The next clause gives as great an image of the thing it would express, says Dr. Young, as can enter the th...

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• Job 41:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. His neesings, х `ªTiyshaah ( H5846 )]. Translate, 'his sneezing causeth a light to shine.' Amphibious...

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• Job 41:18 - 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...

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• Job 41:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning — i.e., fiery red and glowing.

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• Job 41:18 - 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...

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• Job 41:18 - 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...

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• Job 41:18 - 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...

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• Job 41:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 41:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  By his neesings a light doth shine ,.... The philosopher i observes, that those who look to the sun are more apt to sneeze: and it is taken notice of by various writers k, that the crocodile delight...

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• Job 41:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning. Ver. 18. By his neesings a light doth shine ] When this dreadful monster sneezeth, or snorteth, fire breaket...

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• Job 41:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  By his neesings a light doth shine Literally, His sneezing causes the light to sparkle. If he sneeze, or spout up water, it is like a light shining, either with the froth, or the light of the sun...

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• Job 41:18 - 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...

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• Job 41:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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...

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• Job 41:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  By his neesings; which may be understood either, 1. Of any commotion or agitation of the body, like that which is in neezing, as when the whale stirreth himself and casteth or shooteth up great s...

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• Job 41:18 - 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...

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• Job 41:18 - 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...

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• Job 41:18 - 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...

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• Job 41:18 - 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...

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• Job 41:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Weakness when Compared with the Strength of the Crocodile

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• Job 41:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 3:9 ; Revelation 1:14

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• Job 41:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Sneesings — This the crocodile is said frequently to do. Eyes — To which they seem very fitly compared, because the eyes of the crocodile are dull and dark under the water, but as soon as they appe...

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