Job 41:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. ”

Job 41:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His heart is as firm as a stone - As hard; as solid. Bochart remarks that the word “heart” here is not to be regarded as denoting the “courage” of the animal, as it sometimes does, but the heart...
Job 41:24 - 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 41:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone . Hard as a piece of the nether millstone - Which is required to be harder than that which runs above.
Job 41:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. Heart. 'In large beasts, which are less acute in feeling, there is great firmness of the heart, and slower mo...
Job 41:24 - 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 41:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

His heart — i.e. , his nature, his disposition. This seems to be the meaning, rather than the physical organ of life.
Job 41:24 - 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 41:24 - 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 41:24 - 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 41:24 - 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...
Job 41:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone]. Which must be understood not of the substance but of the qualities of it, being bold, courageous, undaunted, and...
Job 41:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone]. Ver. 24. His heart is as firm as a stone ] He is corpore et corde validissimus. Of the sword fish, Plutarch sa...
Job 41:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In his neck remaineth strength , &c. Houbigant's translation of this is excellent; Strength has its dwelling (so ילין עז, jalin gnoz , literally signifies) on his neck His head and body are...
Job 41:24 - 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 41:24 - 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...
Job 41:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

His heart; either, 1. That part of the body is most firm, and hard, and strong. Or, 2. His courage is invincible; he is void of fear for himself, and of compassion to others, which is oft calle...
Job 41:24 - 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 41:24 - 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 41:24 - 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 41:24 - 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 41:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job's Weakness when Compared with the Strength of the Crocodile
Job 41:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 48:4 ; Jeremiah 5:3 ; Zechariah 7:12
Job 41:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Nether mill — stone — Which being to bear the weight of the upper, ought to be the harder and stronger of the two.

Job 41:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 41:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 41:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 41:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 41:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 41:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 41:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 41:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 41:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 41:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 41:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 41:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 41:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 41:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 41:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 41:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 41:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 41:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 41:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 41:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 41:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 41:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 41:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes